American Citizen or Heavenly Ambassador
By Don McGee
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In these days of world-wide turmoil and international confrontations it is quite natural for people to take strong stands along the lines of nationalism. At times these conflicts place Christians in something of a quandary, for they find themselves torn between national loyalties and certain biblical mandates they sometimes interpret as being at odds with their patriotism.
Nationalism is not an evil thing; it was God’s idea to begin with. God told Noah to fill the earth after the flood, but his descendants did not do this. In fact, they chose to do exactly the opposite in that they basically migrated as a single entity to the land of Shinar. And, it was there that the “whole earth used the same language and the same words” (Genesis 11:1ff) and decided they would “...build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” Their desire was to be unified and independent of God, both of which were violations of His orders.
The means God used to break up their united rebellion was the disturbance of their only language. By divine intervention He caused the one big group to be broken up by the imposition of different languages among the people. We are not told how God chose different people for different languages, but He did. This, by the way, was a precedent for the different human languages that were imparted to different people on Pentecost, thus the words used on that day were not gibberish, but genuine languages that could be both spoken and written.
The result of Babel was the beginning of nationalism. Through millennia God made distinctions between various groups by using national boundaries:
and He made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having
determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should
seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from
each one of us (Acts 17:26,27)
Yet, even with borders the primary aim of nations was, and is, to seek God. Those words, “that they should seek God”, make clear that being loyal to one’s country does not necessarily prohibit a person from serving God. The purpose of nationalism was to prevent the kind of world-wide unity that separates the human race from God. He never intended it to be a hindrance or distraction to serving Him. When that happens something is out of kilter, and it is not God. In each instance where conflict between the two arises it is because of nationalistic pride that deifies the state and its government while minimizing, or totally eradicating, the person and position of God. Though communism is the best example of this, yet a republic can also do it as the country morphs into a totally secular society.
Christians are stewards of God’s blessings. Those include intellect, family, wealth, influence, talent, liberty; anything given to us by Him for use in His work and for our enjoyment. Those blessings are to be protected, and at times such protection requires the use of deadly force against an enemy whose purpose is to destroy or irrevocably alter what God has given us. That is sometimes called nationalism or patriotism. And, defense of national blessings does not automatically void a Christian’s responsibilities as an ambassador for Christ. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Though few, there are some people who believe our Christian convictions demand we have no part in any form of physical altercation. Many years ago a Christian man once told a group of us that if an intruder came into his house to do harm to his family, he would not defend them because in doing so he might have to bring harm to the intruder. He said he would pray. Even as a young kid this did not make sense to me at all — are we not to protect our families?
Other Christians take the perceived nationalism/discipleship conflict in somewhat of a different direction. That is, they choose to not bear arms in defense of our country. These men are called “conscientious objectors”. While some refuse military service to any degree, many do not object to being in the military. It is just that, for religious reasons, they do not want to carry weapons into combat.
Though many of us do not agree with such a conclusion, yet we must not get the wrong idea about some of those men. Often they serve as combat medics, and some of those guys are as brave and fearless as any other man. Three Army combat medics have received the Medal of Honor, with Desmond Doss being the first one. Over 100 men owe their lives to his heroic actions.
On the other end of the spectrum are those Christians who see no conflict at all, and are always ready to campaign for candidates, write letters, run for office, contribute money, etc. Many join the armed forces with some even learning classified and highly efficient Special Forces skills with a desire to “take out our enemies”. Those men are wholly dedicated to God, but have no scruples at all about bearing arms in defense of American ideals.
Further, it seems the issue of secular nationalism vs. spiritual ambassadorship goes even deeper than the carrying of weapons into combat, etc. It reaches to the level of not simply being non-nationalistic, but of being anti-nationalistic. Some Christians even choose to not vote regarding candidates, referendums, taxes, etc. They, in essence, divest themselves of every privilege and responsibility of citizenship they possibly can with their justification being, “God is in control anyway, and will orchestrate His will to be done. Why should I get involved?” This eerily parallels pure Calvinism and its logical conclusion; that is, why evangelize if everybody is destined to heaven or hell by God’s sovereignty and no one can do anything about it?
The real crux, however, comes when a Christian’s devotion to his country trumps his devotion to God. Admittedly, the answers to such questions become more complex as more details and “what ifs” are added to the situations. In the analysis, though, a person must act on his conscience as it is impressed by the Holy Spirit’s conviction. In some situations whether an action is right or wrong is very clear; at other times it is not so clear.
Three hypothetical situations might illustrate different aspects of this dilemma.
A 22 year-old Christian who is an Army sniper kills a sworn enemy of the United States. Is this action unjustifiable homicide, or is it the lawful killing of an enemy? Is it ever wrong to kill an enemy? Is this action consistent with this soldier’s first duty which is to be an Ambassador for Christ to those around him? Does God allow such action in defense of one’s country? Is being a soldier OK, but being in combat arms is not OK?
There are several things to consider about this scenario. First, it is not uncommon. Second, once the shot is taken there is no taking it back. Third, a soldier’s mind must be made up before the situation presents itself; there is no time for debate once the scene begins to be played out. Fourth, what effect will this have on his life, his family and his church some years down the road?
A young Marine, who is a Christian, calls in an airstrike on an enemy position and a civilian is killed. He is court-martialed. The military prosecutor, who is also a Christian, knows it was an unpreventable accident, but is ordered to “prosecute without prejudice” anyway due to the political climate. Does the prosecutor press with all his legal skills to convict his Christian brother? Could he worship God in the same congregation with the accused the following Sunday, and share the Lord’s Supper with him? Should the accused simply accept his Christian brother’s prosecution as “just doing his job”?
Both these men have publicly confessed Jesus as their Savior, and both have taken the same oath regarding their service in defense of our country. Do their commitments to Jesus Christ represent just another problem in this whole issue of citizenship vs. discipleship? Is the real problem political perception as defined by the government?
Consider one more hypothetical situation. The President of the United States pulls the plug on all support of Israel while knowing this is practically an open invitation to her enemies to launch an imminent and overwhelming attack. A Christian, who is a high-level civilian employee in the government, is responsible for putting the logistics part of the president’s order into effect immediately. He knows what is coming and that the spare parts for the American-made missile defense system are critical to Israel’s defense. He also knows the scriptures very well regarding God’s judgment upon any nation that goes against His clear commands regarding the nation of Israel and the Jews. What does he do?
The first two hypothetical scenarios have probably happened any number of times in our nation’s history. What we need to understand, though, is the third one is a very real showdown that is indeed coming. The day is very rapidly approaching when our country will make a critical decision that will put her at complete odds with God over Israel. One does not need to be a State Department diplomat to see America is rapidly moving to an anti-Israel stance. And, what
must be clearly understood is this is not simply about a person siding with Israel over America, or vice-versa. It is about someone deciding if they really believe their citizenship is here on earth, or in heaven. That is the heart of the whole issue!
Israel is biblically destined to face her rapidly approaching desolation alone; no nation will come to her aid (Zechariah 14). Those events will happen during the tribulation period, but the truth is the entire planet is living in their shadow this very day. As the American president continues to signal his faltering, hesitant and oftentimes belligerent attitude toward Israel, her enemies are emboldened and continue to build arsenals and develop plans for a devastating attack.
What are Christians to do? We are to remember that though God ordained nationalism, and though it is often necessary to fight to preserve our national liberty, and though it is good to honor our constitution, flag and way of life, yet we must never forget that we do those things solely as earthly, and thus temporary, inhabitants of this country. God’s design is for man to have nationalistic loyalties, but they are to never supersede a Christian’s heavenly citizenship and unreserved stand on God’s word. It is vital to remember that our residence, our home, our own country is elsewhere; our capitol city has an Architect and Builder who is God (Hebrews 11:10). We are here as His ambassadors, and though we have roots here, yet they are temporal and are destined to be pulled out faster than a single blink of an eye.
To think this way is not to be unpatriotic, or some such treasonous thing. Rather, it is to believe what God has said about life, sin, atonement and eternity. There is nothing, absolutely nothing including America and her God-given constitution that can make this world sin-free, or in any way move it back toward its pristine condition at creation. Though proper in their rightful context, yet patriotism does not equate to salvation and nationalism does not equate to Edenic restoration. We must never forget that this world, including our own beloved country, indeed has a king it serves, and his name is not Jesus. Make no mistake about it; our country is under the strong influence of demonic forces whose purpose is to destroy. America, as much as we love her, is not God’s final masterpiece of godliness and liberty. She, too, is under the curse as a result of man’s rebellion against God.
In a few days we will celebrate our 234th year of independence. What a blessing God has granted us! But, maybe this year in addition to thanking God we are not British subjects, we might also make a “declaration of dependence” upon Him. No, it won’t stop God’s imminent and inevitable judgment, but it will serve to demonstrate that our being subjects of the King of kings and Lord of lords trumps our earthly nationalism.
Don McGee's email: csm01@att.net
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Blasphemy: the Final Scourge of Satan
As we watch for the Rapture, the last onslaught of Satan is the spirit of blasphemy. The nature of the Antichrist is a diabolical hatred of all that is God or Godlike. When Satan is cast out of Heaven and confined to the earth, his immediate action is to blaspheme whatever represents God. He will blaspheme the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. He will seek to imitate each person of the Godhead. He will actually fill the earth with blasphemy, and everything that is pure will be trashed to the ultimate.
Jerusalem will be destroyed one last time. The people of Israel will be slaughtered and driven into exile. If you miss the Rapture, do not even think about going to church. There will be churches, but the false church will belong to Satan. Any church that loves to speak the truth will be destroyed in bitter viciousness. People trying to have a Bible-believing church will be ravished, raped, and brutally murdered. The death of those people that turn to Jesus Christ will be so inhumane that they will cry out, even in the throes of death, for God to avenge their horrors.
The fifth seal of the Seven-Sealed Book, which Jesus received from the Father, is a great mystery, “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled” (Revelation 6:9-11). The horrors of their death will leave this company of saints almost screaming for vengeance. But, there will be more to come.
I do not think it is possible to understand the methods of slaughtering that Satan and his Antichrist will employ. While reading Oliver North’s great book about World War II and the tactics of Hitler (a type of Antichrist) and his allies, I was flabbergasted by their treatment of human beings. A soldier, named Richard Marowitz, told of entering the city of Dachau, where there was a SS concentration camp. He said the stench accosted them even before they reached the town. As they entered this camp, where 30,000 POWs were held prisoner, they found the majority had already been murdered. Skeletons of barely alive human beings were wandering around on the verge of starvation. He told about finding forty boxcars loaded with people that had been allowed to die without ever opening the doors. In these forty boxcars they found one living person. (War Stories III, by Oliver North, p. 295.) This is a taste of what will happen to Bible-believing people that dare to resist the Antichrist armies that will impose Satan’s blasphemy on this earth.
The picture of this blasphemy is seen in the prophecies of Revelation, “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority” (Revelation 13:1-2).
Notice that the One World Order, which is described as “ten horns and seven heads,” has the name of blasphemy. This clearly shows that the Antichrist’s world government will be blasphemous! Hatred for all things that are Godlike will be the order of the day. Look at the Obama Regime in our capitol of Washington, DC, and you will see that the character of this crowd is blasphemous. They hate the God of our Holy Bible, along with every one of us that fully worship and obey Him. Obama is a perfect prelude to the Antichrist. He is actually insane in a spiritual sense.
Here is a description of the beast of a human being called Antichrist, “And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations” (Revelation 13:6-7). He first blasphemed the true and living God, and then he blasphemed His name. This shows that he will distinguish the name of our God from the false god, who he will love and lavish with praise. Then, he will blaspheme the true God’s tabernacle in Heaven. This shows that God’s great city of Heavenly Jerusalem will be viewed from the earth. The Antichrist will lead the multitudes in screaming his blasphemies in the face of God. The world is getting ready for this right now.
The last of his blasphemies will be against the saints of God in Heaven, who have already been Raptured. Will we be visible to this unholy world that is filled with the most blatant acts of anger and hatred? I do not know but suggest that we might. As we fill Heaven with praise, acting as His Elders and sharing in the redemption of this universe, the world may indeed have a view of God’s city in jubilation and high praise of our Savior and Lord and our Heavenly Father. That would cause the godless to go insane with blasphemies.
This last Revelation also identifies Replacement Theology as blasphemy. Anyone that denies Israel’s beautiful part in God’s future world is truly a blasphemous person against God’s love for the family of His Son. “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee” (Revelation 3:9). The word blasphemy or blasphemous is used nine times in this masterpiece of truth. The nature and character of this Antichrist is already filling our earth and will soon explode beyond understanding.
I want to warn my friends and readers that blasphemy is the growing order of our world. Anything Biblical and holy is being trashed. Holiness of lifestyle is not just being hated, it is being viciously attacked. The Rapture of His saints is being denied, attacked, and even mocked. If you dress modest and Godly, you will be looked at as someone from another planet. Even our Pentecostal churches are full of the new music and personality musicians instead of worship and spiritual singing.
The godly Salty Saints must be careful to live in the Scriptures. The Bible is our only roadmap, and every truth will be perfectly fulfilled. Be tender before the Lord and invite Him to fill you daily with His Holy Spirit. Do not follow anything that this world is going crazy. If the world loves it, you know it did not come from our Father.
Joseph R. Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org
As we watch for the Rapture, the last onslaught of Satan is the spirit of blasphemy. The nature of the Antichrist is a diabolical hatred of all that is God or Godlike. When Satan is cast out of Heaven and confined to the earth, his immediate action is to blaspheme whatever represents God. He will blaspheme the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. He will seek to imitate each person of the Godhead. He will actually fill the earth with blasphemy, and everything that is pure will be trashed to the ultimate.
Jerusalem will be destroyed one last time. The people of Israel will be slaughtered and driven into exile. If you miss the Rapture, do not even think about going to church. There will be churches, but the false church will belong to Satan. Any church that loves to speak the truth will be destroyed in bitter viciousness. People trying to have a Bible-believing church will be ravished, raped, and brutally murdered. The death of those people that turn to Jesus Christ will be so inhumane that they will cry out, even in the throes of death, for God to avenge their horrors.
The fifth seal of the Seven-Sealed Book, which Jesus received from the Father, is a great mystery, “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled” (Revelation 6:9-11). The horrors of their death will leave this company of saints almost screaming for vengeance. But, there will be more to come.
I do not think it is possible to understand the methods of slaughtering that Satan and his Antichrist will employ. While reading Oliver North’s great book about World War II and the tactics of Hitler (a type of Antichrist) and his allies, I was flabbergasted by their treatment of human beings. A soldier, named Richard Marowitz, told of entering the city of Dachau, where there was a SS concentration camp. He said the stench accosted them even before they reached the town. As they entered this camp, where 30,000 POWs were held prisoner, they found the majority had already been murdered. Skeletons of barely alive human beings were wandering around on the verge of starvation. He told about finding forty boxcars loaded with people that had been allowed to die without ever opening the doors. In these forty boxcars they found one living person. (War Stories III, by Oliver North, p. 295.) This is a taste of what will happen to Bible-believing people that dare to resist the Antichrist armies that will impose Satan’s blasphemy on this earth.
The picture of this blasphemy is seen in the prophecies of Revelation, “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority” (Revelation 13:1-2).
Notice that the One World Order, which is described as “ten horns and seven heads,” has the name of blasphemy. This clearly shows that the Antichrist’s world government will be blasphemous! Hatred for all things that are Godlike will be the order of the day. Look at the Obama Regime in our capitol of Washington, DC, and you will see that the character of this crowd is blasphemous. They hate the God of our Holy Bible, along with every one of us that fully worship and obey Him. Obama is a perfect prelude to the Antichrist. He is actually insane in a spiritual sense.
Here is a description of the beast of a human being called Antichrist, “And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations” (Revelation 13:6-7). He first blasphemed the true and living God, and then he blasphemed His name. This shows that he will distinguish the name of our God from the false god, who he will love and lavish with praise. Then, he will blaspheme the true God’s tabernacle in Heaven. This shows that God’s great city of Heavenly Jerusalem will be viewed from the earth. The Antichrist will lead the multitudes in screaming his blasphemies in the face of God. The world is getting ready for this right now.
The last of his blasphemies will be against the saints of God in Heaven, who have already been Raptured. Will we be visible to this unholy world that is filled with the most blatant acts of anger and hatred? I do not know but suggest that we might. As we fill Heaven with praise, acting as His Elders and sharing in the redemption of this universe, the world may indeed have a view of God’s city in jubilation and high praise of our Savior and Lord and our Heavenly Father. That would cause the godless to go insane with blasphemies.
This last Revelation also identifies Replacement Theology as blasphemy. Anyone that denies Israel’s beautiful part in God’s future world is truly a blasphemous person against God’s love for the family of His Son. “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee” (Revelation 3:9). The word blasphemy or blasphemous is used nine times in this masterpiece of truth. The nature and character of this Antichrist is already filling our earth and will soon explode beyond understanding.
I want to warn my friends and readers that blasphemy is the growing order of our world. Anything Biblical and holy is being trashed. Holiness of lifestyle is not just being hated, it is being viciously attacked. The Rapture of His saints is being denied, attacked, and even mocked. If you dress modest and Godly, you will be looked at as someone from another planet. Even our Pentecostal churches are full of the new music and personality musicians instead of worship and spiritual singing.
The godly Salty Saints must be careful to live in the Scriptures. The Bible is our only roadmap, and every truth will be perfectly fulfilled. Be tender before the Lord and invite Him to fill you daily with His Holy Spirit. Do not follow anything that this world is going crazy. If the world loves it, you know it did not come from our Father.
Joseph R. Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org
THE REMAKING OF JESUS
By Lea Sylvester
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The “remaking” of Jesus is not just some harmless campaign to make God's Word (the Bible) more palatable for those who are looking for “meaning” or for “purpose” in their lives. It is a concise, direct and planned attack on Christianity and on the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. This attack is taking place in our churches, our colleges and even in Congress.
How many times have you heard someone remark, “My God will not send me to hell...” or “God is love...” and this is frequently followed up by some disparaging remark about those parts of God's Word that some find offensive, such as the fact that there are consequences for sin, or that there will be a time when all are judged? Romans 1:20 tells us, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” We also know that without God, we are unworthy and we are all sinners. Only through His grace are we given salvation, Psalm 14:1 “.. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” Psalm 14:2 “The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.” Psalm 14:3 “They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” God reminds us that we all will come short of perfection without His grace, Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” and the consequences of sin are death. Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Does ignoring these facts make them untrue? Many falsely believe that Jesus' loving nature renders him incapable of eternally damning anyone. Our society doesn't want to ever deal with the consequences of their choices...now or ever. But, that is flawed logic because like it or not, all are accountable.
So, how is it that so many “Christians” don't seem to understand that God is not a little cherub, with wings and a bow, floating around in space? Could it be that they don't take the time to study His Word, are not familiar with His Word and therefore don't KNOW? Are pastors today teaching ALL of the Bible? Will those sitting in the pews in those churches be held accountable for what they do not know? The answer to the last three questions is YES! Every person will answer for their actions and choices, and they will answer to the God who created the universe, and all that is.
Many people are aware that the phrase, “Separation of church and state” do not appear anywhere in the Constitution of the United States of America. But, many believe it does. Recently, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was quoted as saying, “...we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of 'the word'. The Word. Isn't it a beautiful word when you think of it? It just covers everything. The Word.”
Pelosi was speaking about how it is our responsibility to provide for those in need or those “deemed” in need and that we should do so by taking from others (taxing, regulatory legislation, etc.) and giving to others. She says her “favorite” scripture is, “The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'to minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' “ I'm not sure which Bible Pelosi is studying but it certainly is NOT the same version as the one I've studied! That saying appears nowhere in the Old Testament, nor the New Testament. How many people have heard her say this and never knew of her deception? If we don't know the truth, how can we know the truth from a lie or deception? We cannot.
The “remaking” of Jesus includes the Ecumenical Movement which is the precursor to the New World Religion. Many mainstream denominations and their leaders are embracing this “interfaith doctrine” with zealousness. They believe that we all are “God's children” (we have that option, to be sure), for the higher good of everyone, we should show “unity” and join with those of all religions because, after all “we worship the same god.” This is a blatant lie.
This movement is endorsed by many so-called Christians. Ecumenicity or ecumenism is the practice of promoting cooperation or better understanding among different religions. Christians are warned about false prophets, doctrines, and the best protection we have to keep from being misled is to know God's Word. Does God tell us to hold hands with those who worship Allah? What about Buddha? How are we to share the good news if we are busy building bridges to other faiths?
Many “progressives” in this country have claimed and continue to claim that Jesus was a “liberal.” Modern society has often painted Jesus as a very “soft,” even effeminate person. Jesus teaches us to be followers of peace and to turn the other cheek when we are reviled or insulted (Matt 5:9, 38-39). Peacemaker and pacifist are not the same.
Anything Jesus taught was totally consistent with the laws which God had already established including the laws against theft, envy and covetousness (Exodus 20:15, 17). These are destroyers of the soul.
God's word tells us we should help the whole person, not distribute handouts. Unless we provide charity as the Gospel directs, we are only sending a person to a hopeless future. Is it possible to be a faithful Christian and still follow the principles of the modern Democratic Party? This is not to suggest that there are not genuine Christians who happen to be Democrats. The Democratic Party has lost the Christian vote because it doesn't stand for Godly principles. How can we give our allegiance to Christ and at the same time follow an organization which openly promotes homosexuality, abortion and many other policies that openly defy God's Word. According to II John 2:9 to support these is to be a partaker of them. Another good question may be how can we attend a church that openly puts those same people in a leadership position? This compromises the entire congregation of that establishment.
In no way is this an endorsement of the Republican Party. It is true that the GOP has more consistently addressed issues that concern Christians. Disregarding the poor can never be excused. Caring for the poor and needy is the most frequently repeated command in the Bible. How we address this issue displays our faith – whether it is genuine or not (James 2:14-17). If we neglect the poor, God will not accept our worship (Amos 5:21-24). He will not hear our prayers (Proverbs 21:13), and we will ultimately be judged severely (Amos 6:4-7).
Poverty can never be defeated through human means, political or otherwise. There are government programs that have helped people during hard times and have helped make lives better. But, in some cases, these programs have proven to be nothing more than political grandstanding. Caring for the needy is the work of God, and God's work must be done in God's way.
Some have misinterpreted Jesus' compassion for the poor to be a form of Socialism or even Communism. The truth is, however, that private property and free enterprise have a biblical basis. It is good to remember that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were all wealthy men, made rich by the blessing of God (Genesis 13:12, 26:14, 33:5). This can also be seen by those in the Old Testament such as Joseph (Genesis 41:57), Solomon (1 Kings 3:13), Daniel (Daniel 6:28), and many others.
If Jesus were, as some teach, indiscriminately opposed to wealth and prosperity, it seems that He neglected to read His own Scriptures.
The Hebrew Scriptures Jesus believed and cherished taught that from the beginning God gave man property to tend and care for (Genesis 1:26, 2:15). The Ten Commandments reinforces these property rights by settling strict laws against theft and covetousness (Exodus 20:15, 17). God takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant (Psalm 35:27), rewards hard work and ingenuity (Proverbs 10:4) and declares that to enjoy the fruits of our labors is a gift from Him (Ecclesiastes 3:13, 5:19). Jesus' future millennial reign will be a time in which every person will sit down on their own property under their own “vine and fig tree” (Micah 4:14).
Jesus was not poor, and He did not uphold poverty as an ideal. Unbiblical ideas about money (equating poverty with humility and spirituality) has kept countless believers from the fruitful, benevolent lives God desires for all of us. No matter about the pious cliches, there is nothing humble nor spiritual about watching those you love go hungry or cold. Prosperity is more than money. That is why it is important to not only help the poor but also teach them how to help themselves. As we all have heard, give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. This is the practical approach that is the center of Biblical welfare and charity toward others.
God did not set up a welfare state for His people. It was a free market economy in which people could make as much money as they wanted to, provided they did it within the framework of God's covenants (Deuteronomy 8:18). Their tax system was not a wealth redistribution scheme. The Bible gives us examples of how excessive taxation can have disastrous results. The breakup of the Kingdom of Israel into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah following the death of Solomon is a good example of this. It is directly attributed to heavy taxation (1 Kings 12:4, Nehemiah 5:4, II Kings 23:35). For His covenant people, God established what we would call a flat tax system. An equal percentage was required of every Israelite, rich or poor.
God's primary means of financial provision is the avenue of work (Ephesians 6:5-7, II Thessalonians 3:10) and ancient Israel was no exception. A study of the harvesting of crops shows us that what wasn't gathered by the farmer was left for those less fortunate. They would come pick up the remainder for their families (Leviticus 19:9, 23:22, Deuteronomy 24:19-22). All forms of welfare required responsibilities from the person or persons who received it.
Today, the same principles we saw in the Old Testament remain. We must remember that need, in and of itself, does not move God. God is moved when we step out in faith to receive His provision. He wants us to depend upon Him for everything. The church's primary mission is to win the lost and to make disciples and all programs including charity are aimed toward this goal. We must be good stewards of the financial resources that God gives us.
There are many needs in this lost world. None of us can do it all but we all can do something. Jesus' words are still true for His followers in today's world: “Freely you have received, freely give.” Matthew 10:8. “To whom much is given, much is required.” Luke 12:48 We will be held accountable for how we respond to the hungry, the sick, those in prison and those who are lost. “Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire. For I was hungry, and ye fed me not...In as much as you did not do it for the least of these, you did it not for me...” Matthew 25:41-46.
We have great opportunities to glorify our Heavenly Father today. We can feed the hungry, reach out to those in prison, speak for victims of persecution and oppression, defend unborn children and do good wherever and whenever we have the opportunity. By doing this, the name of Jesus will be glorified. Labels such as “conservative” and “liberal” or “progressive” will lose their significance. But we must know God's Word, we must be ready to give an account for our faith at any time. We must get the wonderful message of God's love to those lost in this world for our time grows short.
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:14-16).
By Lea Sylvester
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The “remaking” of Jesus is not just some harmless campaign to make God's Word (the Bible) more palatable for those who are looking for “meaning” or for “purpose” in their lives. It is a concise, direct and planned attack on Christianity and on the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. This attack is taking place in our churches, our colleges and even in Congress.
How many times have you heard someone remark, “My God will not send me to hell...” or “God is love...” and this is frequently followed up by some disparaging remark about those parts of God's Word that some find offensive, such as the fact that there are consequences for sin, or that there will be a time when all are judged? Romans 1:20 tells us, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” We also know that without God, we are unworthy and we are all sinners. Only through His grace are we given salvation, Psalm 14:1 “.. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” Psalm 14:2 “The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.” Psalm 14:3 “They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” God reminds us that we all will come short of perfection without His grace, Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” and the consequences of sin are death. Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Does ignoring these facts make them untrue? Many falsely believe that Jesus' loving nature renders him incapable of eternally damning anyone. Our society doesn't want to ever deal with the consequences of their choices...now or ever. But, that is flawed logic because like it or not, all are accountable.
So, how is it that so many “Christians” don't seem to understand that God is not a little cherub, with wings and a bow, floating around in space? Could it be that they don't take the time to study His Word, are not familiar with His Word and therefore don't KNOW? Are pastors today teaching ALL of the Bible? Will those sitting in the pews in those churches be held accountable for what they do not know? The answer to the last three questions is YES! Every person will answer for their actions and choices, and they will answer to the God who created the universe, and all that is.
Many people are aware that the phrase, “Separation of church and state” do not appear anywhere in the Constitution of the United States of America. But, many believe it does. Recently, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was quoted as saying, “...we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of 'the word'. The Word. Isn't it a beautiful word when you think of it? It just covers everything. The Word.”
Pelosi was speaking about how it is our responsibility to provide for those in need or those “deemed” in need and that we should do so by taking from others (taxing, regulatory legislation, etc.) and giving to others. She says her “favorite” scripture is, “The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'to minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' “ I'm not sure which Bible Pelosi is studying but it certainly is NOT the same version as the one I've studied! That saying appears nowhere in the Old Testament, nor the New Testament. How many people have heard her say this and never knew of her deception? If we don't know the truth, how can we know the truth from a lie or deception? We cannot.
The “remaking” of Jesus includes the Ecumenical Movement which is the precursor to the New World Religion. Many mainstream denominations and their leaders are embracing this “interfaith doctrine” with zealousness. They believe that we all are “God's children” (we have that option, to be sure), for the higher good of everyone, we should show “unity” and join with those of all religions because, after all “we worship the same god.” This is a blatant lie.
This movement is endorsed by many so-called Christians. Ecumenicity or ecumenism is the practice of promoting cooperation or better understanding among different religions. Christians are warned about false prophets, doctrines, and the best protection we have to keep from being misled is to know God's Word. Does God tell us to hold hands with those who worship Allah? What about Buddha? How are we to share the good news if we are busy building bridges to other faiths?
Many “progressives” in this country have claimed and continue to claim that Jesus was a “liberal.” Modern society has often painted Jesus as a very “soft,” even effeminate person. Jesus teaches us to be followers of peace and to turn the other cheek when we are reviled or insulted (Matt 5:9, 38-39). Peacemaker and pacifist are not the same.
Anything Jesus taught was totally consistent with the laws which God had already established including the laws against theft, envy and covetousness (Exodus 20:15, 17). These are destroyers of the soul.
God's word tells us we should help the whole person, not distribute handouts. Unless we provide charity as the Gospel directs, we are only sending a person to a hopeless future. Is it possible to be a faithful Christian and still follow the principles of the modern Democratic Party? This is not to suggest that there are not genuine Christians who happen to be Democrats. The Democratic Party has lost the Christian vote because it doesn't stand for Godly principles. How can we give our allegiance to Christ and at the same time follow an organization which openly promotes homosexuality, abortion and many other policies that openly defy God's Word. According to II John 2:9 to support these is to be a partaker of them. Another good question may be how can we attend a church that openly puts those same people in a leadership position? This compromises the entire congregation of that establishment.
In no way is this an endorsement of the Republican Party. It is true that the GOP has more consistently addressed issues that concern Christians. Disregarding the poor can never be excused. Caring for the poor and needy is the most frequently repeated command in the Bible. How we address this issue displays our faith – whether it is genuine or not (James 2:14-17). If we neglect the poor, God will not accept our worship (Amos 5:21-24). He will not hear our prayers (Proverbs 21:13), and we will ultimately be judged severely (Amos 6:4-7).
Poverty can never be defeated through human means, political or otherwise. There are government programs that have helped people during hard times and have helped make lives better. But, in some cases, these programs have proven to be nothing more than political grandstanding. Caring for the needy is the work of God, and God's work must be done in God's way.
Some have misinterpreted Jesus' compassion for the poor to be a form of Socialism or even Communism. The truth is, however, that private property and free enterprise have a biblical basis. It is good to remember that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were all wealthy men, made rich by the blessing of God (Genesis 13:12, 26:14, 33:5). This can also be seen by those in the Old Testament such as Joseph (Genesis 41:57), Solomon (1 Kings 3:13), Daniel (Daniel 6:28), and many others.
If Jesus were, as some teach, indiscriminately opposed to wealth and prosperity, it seems that He neglected to read His own Scriptures.
The Hebrew Scriptures Jesus believed and cherished taught that from the beginning God gave man property to tend and care for (Genesis 1:26, 2:15). The Ten Commandments reinforces these property rights by settling strict laws against theft and covetousness (Exodus 20:15, 17). God takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant (Psalm 35:27), rewards hard work and ingenuity (Proverbs 10:4) and declares that to enjoy the fruits of our labors is a gift from Him (Ecclesiastes 3:13, 5:19). Jesus' future millennial reign will be a time in which every person will sit down on their own property under their own “vine and fig tree” (Micah 4:14).
Jesus was not poor, and He did not uphold poverty as an ideal. Unbiblical ideas about money (equating poverty with humility and spirituality) has kept countless believers from the fruitful, benevolent lives God desires for all of us. No matter about the pious cliches, there is nothing humble nor spiritual about watching those you love go hungry or cold. Prosperity is more than money. That is why it is important to not only help the poor but also teach them how to help themselves. As we all have heard, give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. This is the practical approach that is the center of Biblical welfare and charity toward others.
God did not set up a welfare state for His people. It was a free market economy in which people could make as much money as they wanted to, provided they did it within the framework of God's covenants (Deuteronomy 8:18). Their tax system was not a wealth redistribution scheme. The Bible gives us examples of how excessive taxation can have disastrous results. The breakup of the Kingdom of Israel into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah following the death of Solomon is a good example of this. It is directly attributed to heavy taxation (1 Kings 12:4, Nehemiah 5:4, II Kings 23:35). For His covenant people, God established what we would call a flat tax system. An equal percentage was required of every Israelite, rich or poor.
God's primary means of financial provision is the avenue of work (Ephesians 6:5-7, II Thessalonians 3:10) and ancient Israel was no exception. A study of the harvesting of crops shows us that what wasn't gathered by the farmer was left for those less fortunate. They would come pick up the remainder for their families (Leviticus 19:9, 23:22, Deuteronomy 24:19-22). All forms of welfare required responsibilities from the person or persons who received it.
Today, the same principles we saw in the Old Testament remain. We must remember that need, in and of itself, does not move God. God is moved when we step out in faith to receive His provision. He wants us to depend upon Him for everything. The church's primary mission is to win the lost and to make disciples and all programs including charity are aimed toward this goal. We must be good stewards of the financial resources that God gives us.
There are many needs in this lost world. None of us can do it all but we all can do something. Jesus' words are still true for His followers in today's world: “Freely you have received, freely give.” Matthew 10:8. “To whom much is given, much is required.” Luke 12:48 We will be held accountable for how we respond to the hungry, the sick, those in prison and those who are lost. “Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire. For I was hungry, and ye fed me not...In as much as you did not do it for the least of these, you did it not for me...” Matthew 25:41-46.
We have great opportunities to glorify our Heavenly Father today. We can feed the hungry, reach out to those in prison, speak for victims of persecution and oppression, defend unborn children and do good wherever and whenever we have the opportunity. By doing this, the name of Jesus will be glorified. Labels such as “conservative” and “liberal” or “progressive” will lose their significance. But we must know God's Word, we must be ready to give an account for our faith at any time. We must get the wonderful message of God's love to those lost in this world for our time grows short.
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:14-16).
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Devil's Dementia Goes Viral
By Terry James
Do you ever read, watch, or hear news reports and say to yourself: "The world has gone crazy!" or something to that effect? Certainly, this seems to be a world going--or already gone--mad. The observation is worthy of in-depth investigation.
Looking in any direction across the landscape of human interaction produces undeniable evidence. This is a planet of people whose sanity is under assault by an unseen force. It is the same sin-sickness that infected the first recorded rebel, Lucifer the fallen one, who is so delusional that he thinks he can still defeat the God of heaven. Thus, I give the malady the designation the "Devil's dementia." Indeed, it has gone viral upon planet earth.
The supernaturally inflicted dementia has brought much of humanity to the point that mankind's thinking has become reprobate. The word reprobate is defined as: morally depraved; unprincipled; bad. Reprobate thinking is rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation (apart from redemption found only in Jesus Christ). It is the kind of thinking with which Satan, the devil, now incessantly assaults God's creation called man. Mankind is thus fatally infected, his mind only on evil continually, just as prophesied.
Jesus said it would be like in the days of Noah at the time of His Second Coming (Lk. 17:26-27). When we check those days, we find the following: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Gen. 6:5).
Let us consider the spreading dementia that afflicts our nation and the world at this late hour in history. Analyzing the arenas of human endeavor and the upside-down thinking that pervades will quite possibly further give us a sense of where this generation stands on God's prophetic timeline.
Religious Dementia
Religion, rather than acting as a comforting abode for the spirit as it is purported to do, more often inflames passions and ignites wars than soothes the savage beast within man. The most volatile religion of our time has at its very heart the demand that genocide be perpetrated upon God's chosen people. Jihad is the term for "holy war" that inspires much of Islam. It is sheer insanity that demands that parents strap bombs to their sons and daughters to blow up others--this in the name of bringing into being peace on earth!
Christianity today more and more spotlights the madness of the hour. Many who say they are Christians have turned from the very reason for Christianity's name--Jesus Christ and His death, burial, and resurrection as sacrifice so men, women, and children can be redeemed from sin. False teachers and preachers divert the minds and hearts of people to fables. It is an inward turning toward self-centeredness and away from reaching out to the lost of the world as Christ commissioned His followers to do.
In the name of Christ, Catholicism harbors a seemingly endless number of priests who are pedophiles, who prey on the innocent children who are supposed to be under their watch care. This is reprobate thinking and an assault on God--perversion of the worst sort.
The devil's dementia is working within the Church today, through the wolves in sheep's clothing, as condemned by Scripture:
"Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith" (2 Tim 3:8).
"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate" (Titus 1:16).
Socio-economic Dementia
All one has to do to understand what is going on in bringing down the United States is to cogitate on the thoughts recently uttered by one of America's avowed enemies. "Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president, wrote in an essay that passage of the American healthcare overhaul is 'a miracle' and a major victory for Barack Obama’s presidency, but called it 'really incredible' that the U.S. took more than two centuries from its founding to approve health benefits for all" ("In the News," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 3/26/10, p. 1).
The American government and the present administration demonstrate beyond any doubt the dementia that affects U.S. leadership. These "leaders" demand that Americans learn to live within their means, yet the politicians run up tabs of trillions of dollars in the drive to convert the nation to European-style socialism at best--to a Marxist state at worst. The big tax-and-spenders have strapped and continue to strap future generations with debt that can never be repaid. Only God's staying hand has prevented the complete implosion of the U.S. and world economies to this point.
It is madness, but if viewed through spiritually attuned senses, it's madness that can be understood as defiantly following the reprobate thinking that opposes the God of heaven. With a considerable majority of U.S. citizenry opposing the massive spending spree, the majority party ignores the people's wishes. Instead they tie to their insane fiscal scheme taxpayer-funded abortions and other anti-God legislation, which enables atrocities such as public schools outlawing Bibles in classrooms while distributing condoms and birth control pills to students.
The madness spreads and metastasizes. FOX News reported Thursday, March 25, 2010, that a mother was devastated that her fifteen-year-old daughter was transported to an abortion facility by a public school in Seattle, Washington, for an abortion. This was done because the mother had signed a consent form she thought was for the child's medical safety, in case there was a medical emergency while she was at school. The school powers-that-be interpreted the consent form as meaning they had the right to abort the child's baby. That the girl was pregnant is troubling enough, but the government-funded school taking such godless action demonstrates a reprobate mindset that would have in earlier generations been unfathomable.
FOX News reported the same day that a phenomenon known as the "flash mob" has come into being, whereby young people assemble on an Internet gathering site, organize, then physically take to the streets to vandalize and destroy merchandise within stores and damage other places. The report disclosed that an activity known as "catch and wretch" is the recreational activity of a growing number of children as young as nine years old. They pick out a victim (sometimes the elderly), as would a pack of wolves, then they beat them and do other dastardly things. Lawlessness is the result of the devil's dementia, of which Antichrist will one day be the chief proponent.
Geopolitical Dementia Nowhere is the upside-down thinking that is the devil's dementia more evident, from the biblically prophetic perspective, than in the arena of geopolitics. Again, on FOX--"FOX and Friends," Friday, March 26, 2010--I heard contributor Geraldo Rivera accuse Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being the cause of Middle East tensions. He implied that they were the roadblock to peace in the region because they consistently perpetrated acts against the impoverished Palestinian people.
Rivera had just returned from the region, and, in my view, painted Netanyahu as a tyrant, whose Likkud party wanted only to stir the boiling pot that is the Middle East, and was an obstacle to peace. He praised the Obama administration as the sane influence, and said the Israeli government should be pressured to give in to the two-state solution and the division of Jerusalem.
The devil's dementia--the reprobate, woolly-mindedness--couldn't be more exposed than through Rivera's diatribe. Despite the fact that Israel's enemies, since its reestablishment as a nation in 1948, have been blood-vowed to wipe the Jewish state from off the earth, Rivera and his ilk still spew with a straight face that Israel is the troublemaker.
The history is plain for anyone with a sound mind to understand. Gamel Abdul Nasser, the Egyptian tyrant, attacked Israel with a huge coalition of Arab states in 1956, and again in 1967. Anwar Sadat, Egypt's leader, accompanied by another huge contingent of Arab states, assaulted Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973. The objective in all the wars initiated by the anti-Israel forces was to wipe the nation off the map. The Arab enemies of Israel still hold to the eradication of Israel as their focus of hatred. Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has at every opportunity declared that he wants to scour the Jewish State from the earth; he even wants to bring on Armageddon so the 12th Imam can emerge from the ashes to institute Allah's glorious reign upon earth.
And the world's diplomats and media call Israel the culprit! The devil's dementia has gone viral, and Jesus Christ is the only cure.
By Terry James
Do you ever read, watch, or hear news reports and say to yourself: "The world has gone crazy!" or something to that effect? Certainly, this seems to be a world going--or already gone--mad. The observation is worthy of in-depth investigation.
Looking in any direction across the landscape of human interaction produces undeniable evidence. This is a planet of people whose sanity is under assault by an unseen force. It is the same sin-sickness that infected the first recorded rebel, Lucifer the fallen one, who is so delusional that he thinks he can still defeat the God of heaven. Thus, I give the malady the designation the "Devil's dementia." Indeed, it has gone viral upon planet earth.
The supernaturally inflicted dementia has brought much of humanity to the point that mankind's thinking has become reprobate. The word reprobate is defined as: morally depraved; unprincipled; bad. Reprobate thinking is rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation (apart from redemption found only in Jesus Christ). It is the kind of thinking with which Satan, the devil, now incessantly assaults God's creation called man. Mankind is thus fatally infected, his mind only on evil continually, just as prophesied.
Jesus said it would be like in the days of Noah at the time of His Second Coming (Lk. 17:26-27). When we check those days, we find the following: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Gen. 6:5).
Let us consider the spreading dementia that afflicts our nation and the world at this late hour in history. Analyzing the arenas of human endeavor and the upside-down thinking that pervades will quite possibly further give us a sense of where this generation stands on God's prophetic timeline.
Religious Dementia
Religion, rather than acting as a comforting abode for the spirit as it is purported to do, more often inflames passions and ignites wars than soothes the savage beast within man. The most volatile religion of our time has at its very heart the demand that genocide be perpetrated upon God's chosen people. Jihad is the term for "holy war" that inspires much of Islam. It is sheer insanity that demands that parents strap bombs to their sons and daughters to blow up others--this in the name of bringing into being peace on earth!
Christianity today more and more spotlights the madness of the hour. Many who say they are Christians have turned from the very reason for Christianity's name--Jesus Christ and His death, burial, and resurrection as sacrifice so men, women, and children can be redeemed from sin. False teachers and preachers divert the minds and hearts of people to fables. It is an inward turning toward self-centeredness and away from reaching out to the lost of the world as Christ commissioned His followers to do.
In the name of Christ, Catholicism harbors a seemingly endless number of priests who are pedophiles, who prey on the innocent children who are supposed to be under their watch care. This is reprobate thinking and an assault on God--perversion of the worst sort.
The devil's dementia is working within the Church today, through the wolves in sheep's clothing, as condemned by Scripture:
"Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith" (2 Tim 3:8).
"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate" (Titus 1:16).
Socio-economic Dementia
All one has to do to understand what is going on in bringing down the United States is to cogitate on the thoughts recently uttered by one of America's avowed enemies. "Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president, wrote in an essay that passage of the American healthcare overhaul is 'a miracle' and a major victory for Barack Obama’s presidency, but called it 'really incredible' that the U.S. took more than two centuries from its founding to approve health benefits for all" ("In the News," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 3/26/10, p. 1).
The American government and the present administration demonstrate beyond any doubt the dementia that affects U.S. leadership. These "leaders" demand that Americans learn to live within their means, yet the politicians run up tabs of trillions of dollars in the drive to convert the nation to European-style socialism at best--to a Marxist state at worst. The big tax-and-spenders have strapped and continue to strap future generations with debt that can never be repaid. Only God's staying hand has prevented the complete implosion of the U.S. and world economies to this point.
It is madness, but if viewed through spiritually attuned senses, it's madness that can be understood as defiantly following the reprobate thinking that opposes the God of heaven. With a considerable majority of U.S. citizenry opposing the massive spending spree, the majority party ignores the people's wishes. Instead they tie to their insane fiscal scheme taxpayer-funded abortions and other anti-God legislation, which enables atrocities such as public schools outlawing Bibles in classrooms while distributing condoms and birth control pills to students.
The madness spreads and metastasizes. FOX News reported Thursday, March 25, 2010, that a mother was devastated that her fifteen-year-old daughter was transported to an abortion facility by a public school in Seattle, Washington, for an abortion. This was done because the mother had signed a consent form she thought was for the child's medical safety, in case there was a medical emergency while she was at school. The school powers-that-be interpreted the consent form as meaning they had the right to abort the child's baby. That the girl was pregnant is troubling enough, but the government-funded school taking such godless action demonstrates a reprobate mindset that would have in earlier generations been unfathomable.
FOX News reported the same day that a phenomenon known as the "flash mob" has come into being, whereby young people assemble on an Internet gathering site, organize, then physically take to the streets to vandalize and destroy merchandise within stores and damage other places. The report disclosed that an activity known as "catch and wretch" is the recreational activity of a growing number of children as young as nine years old. They pick out a victim (sometimes the elderly), as would a pack of wolves, then they beat them and do other dastardly things. Lawlessness is the result of the devil's dementia, of which Antichrist will one day be the chief proponent.
Geopolitical Dementia Nowhere is the upside-down thinking that is the devil's dementia more evident, from the biblically prophetic perspective, than in the arena of geopolitics. Again, on FOX--"FOX and Friends," Friday, March 26, 2010--I heard contributor Geraldo Rivera accuse Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being the cause of Middle East tensions. He implied that they were the roadblock to peace in the region because they consistently perpetrated acts against the impoverished Palestinian people.
Rivera had just returned from the region, and, in my view, painted Netanyahu as a tyrant, whose Likkud party wanted only to stir the boiling pot that is the Middle East, and was an obstacle to peace. He praised the Obama administration as the sane influence, and said the Israeli government should be pressured to give in to the two-state solution and the division of Jerusalem.
The devil's dementia--the reprobate, woolly-mindedness--couldn't be more exposed than through Rivera's diatribe. Despite the fact that Israel's enemies, since its reestablishment as a nation in 1948, have been blood-vowed to wipe the Jewish state from off the earth, Rivera and his ilk still spew with a straight face that Israel is the troublemaker.
The history is plain for anyone with a sound mind to understand. Gamel Abdul Nasser, the Egyptian tyrant, attacked Israel with a huge coalition of Arab states in 1956, and again in 1967. Anwar Sadat, Egypt's leader, accompanied by another huge contingent of Arab states, assaulted Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973. The objective in all the wars initiated by the anti-Israel forces was to wipe the nation off the map. The Arab enemies of Israel still hold to the eradication of Israel as their focus of hatred. Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has at every opportunity declared that he wants to scour the Jewish State from the earth; he even wants to bring on Armageddon so the 12th Imam can emerge from the ashes to institute Allah's glorious reign upon earth.
And the world's diplomats and media call Israel the culprit! The devil's dementia has gone viral, and Jesus Christ is the only cure.
Obama’s Healthcare Microchip: The “Mark?”
The United States of America has taken the giant step towards universal control of every American citizen and anyone receiving any form of medical treatment and/or supplies. This is not the Mark of the Antichrist, but it is the precursor to that Mark. The amazing fact of this action is that it puts the United States in the driver’s seat of the One World Order. Congressman Ron Paul’s website has these exact words, “‘In real world speak,’ according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country.” (http://www.dailypaul.com/node/105079).
By nature, I am a doubter when it comes to fear-mongering or conspiracy theories that have little or no supportive information. When this idea was first mentioned on our Open Bible Dialogue radio talk show, I doubted it openly. But, after a little help from others and a lot of digging myself, I knew something was very scary. Here is a little of the information from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ website. This information was slated as “Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff.” This kind of information cannot be accidental.
“This guidance document was developed as a special control guidance to support the classification of the implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information into class II (special controls). The device is intended to enable access to secure patient identification and corresponding health information in humans. This guidance is issued in conjunction with a Federal Register notice announcing the classification of implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information.
“This guidance document describes a means by which implantable radiofrequency transponder systems for patient identification and health information may comply with the requirement of class II special controls. Designation of this guidance document as a special control means that manufacturers of implantable radiofrequency transponder systems for patient identification and health information who follow the recommendations listed in this document, before introducing their device into commercial distribution in the United States, will also be able to market their device without being subject to the premarket notification requirements of section 510(k) of the Act.” (http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ucm072141.htm).
As massive as Obama’s Healthcare bill is, there is no way it can function without a complete system of control. The present cost of the health-related programs is draining our nation and it is only minute in comparison. This new law — already signed by the president — also requires every citizen and anyone else receiving health care to purchase insurance. This certainly suggests that every person living within our borders will eventually be assigned this radioactive chip. You can probably be assured that this chip will now or eventually have a GPS responder to locate you in case you get lost. Isn’t that nice of this crowd of liberals?
Is this idea just a fancy way to take care of our health needs? Or is it Big Government that is determined to control our lives? The Holy Bible is absolutely plain that this is the future of our world. The Antichrist will only have seven years to form his plan, implement it, and rule the world. He needs surrogates like President Obama to prepare the way. It is only reasonable to understand that almost every aspect of world control must be in place before he appears. With over six billion souls alive and dramatically growing, the stage must be set and in order.
We can see our world headed towards the One World Order from every direction. There are almost no national economies in the world. The world court is already conducting business and a great effort is underway to pressure every government to comply. A world religion is in place. The only religions not at the table are Orthodox Judaism and Fundamental Christianity. We are hated for such narrow-mindedness.
Let’s remember that the Biblical Prophecy writers and ministers have been warning us about this for decades. There are some writers that have set dates, made wild predictions, and missed the mark by wide margins. But, the mainstream writers and ministers have been right on target. Years ago I said, “If Jesus tarries a few more years, we will begin to think that we are already in the Great Tribulation.” Every day I feel a little more like that, while at the same time I know that the Great Tribulation cannot begin until the Rapture occurs.
The Bible predicted this future “Mark of the Beast.” “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:15-17).
Again, I remind you that Obama’s microchip is not the Mark of the Beast. This future Mark must be identified with the Antichrist and is in essence a form of devil-worship. Taking that Mark will be a choice between the worship of our Lord Jesus Christ and the devil, along with his false trinity. The present push for world control is certainly satanic. The entire Obama agenda has been evil from his first day in office. Remember that while he was being sworn into office, the website at the White House was programmed with his homosexual agenda, plus many other liberal directives.
It’s time to stand tall on every issue of life. Absolutely no one should take his chip. You will probably not even be able to buy your prescriptions without the druggist putting the cash register scanner on your right hand. The Rapture-ready crowd will be out of here shortly.
Joseph R. Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org
The United States of America has taken the giant step towards universal control of every American citizen and anyone receiving any form of medical treatment and/or supplies. This is not the Mark of the Antichrist, but it is the precursor to that Mark. The amazing fact of this action is that it puts the United States in the driver’s seat of the One World Order. Congressman Ron Paul’s website has these exact words, “‘In real world speak,’ according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country.” (http://www.dailypaul.com/node/105079).
By nature, I am a doubter when it comes to fear-mongering or conspiracy theories that have little or no supportive information. When this idea was first mentioned on our Open Bible Dialogue radio talk show, I doubted it openly. But, after a little help from others and a lot of digging myself, I knew something was very scary. Here is a little of the information from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ website. This information was slated as “Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff.” This kind of information cannot be accidental.
“This guidance document was developed as a special control guidance to support the classification of the implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information into class II (special controls). The device is intended to enable access to secure patient identification and corresponding health information in humans. This guidance is issued in conjunction with a Federal Register notice announcing the classification of implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information.
“This guidance document describes a means by which implantable radiofrequency transponder systems for patient identification and health information may comply with the requirement of class II special controls. Designation of this guidance document as a special control means that manufacturers of implantable radiofrequency transponder systems for patient identification and health information who follow the recommendations listed in this document, before introducing their device into commercial distribution in the United States, will also be able to market their device without being subject to the premarket notification requirements of section 510(k) of the Act.” (http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ucm072141.htm).
As massive as Obama’s Healthcare bill is, there is no way it can function without a complete system of control. The present cost of the health-related programs is draining our nation and it is only minute in comparison. This new law — already signed by the president — also requires every citizen and anyone else receiving health care to purchase insurance. This certainly suggests that every person living within our borders will eventually be assigned this radioactive chip. You can probably be assured that this chip will now or eventually have a GPS responder to locate you in case you get lost. Isn’t that nice of this crowd of liberals?
Is this idea just a fancy way to take care of our health needs? Or is it Big Government that is determined to control our lives? The Holy Bible is absolutely plain that this is the future of our world. The Antichrist will only have seven years to form his plan, implement it, and rule the world. He needs surrogates like President Obama to prepare the way. It is only reasonable to understand that almost every aspect of world control must be in place before he appears. With over six billion souls alive and dramatically growing, the stage must be set and in order.
We can see our world headed towards the One World Order from every direction. There are almost no national economies in the world. The world court is already conducting business and a great effort is underway to pressure every government to comply. A world religion is in place. The only religions not at the table are Orthodox Judaism and Fundamental Christianity. We are hated for such narrow-mindedness.
Let’s remember that the Biblical Prophecy writers and ministers have been warning us about this for decades. There are some writers that have set dates, made wild predictions, and missed the mark by wide margins. But, the mainstream writers and ministers have been right on target. Years ago I said, “If Jesus tarries a few more years, we will begin to think that we are already in the Great Tribulation.” Every day I feel a little more like that, while at the same time I know that the Great Tribulation cannot begin until the Rapture occurs.
The Bible predicted this future “Mark of the Beast.” “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:15-17).
Again, I remind you that Obama’s microchip is not the Mark of the Beast. This future Mark must be identified with the Antichrist and is in essence a form of devil-worship. Taking that Mark will be a choice between the worship of our Lord Jesus Christ and the devil, along with his false trinity. The present push for world control is certainly satanic. The entire Obama agenda has been evil from his first day in office. Remember that while he was being sworn into office, the website at the White House was programmed with his homosexual agenda, plus many other liberal directives.
It’s time to stand tall on every issue of life. Absolutely no one should take his chip. You will probably not even be able to buy your prescriptions without the druggist putting the cash register scanner on your right hand. The Rapture-ready crowd will be out of here shortly.
Joseph R. Chambers
jrc@pawcreek.org
Friday, March 26, 2010
HAARP: Weaponizing the Atmosphere and Beyond
Posted: March 25, 2010
11:00 am Eastern
By Jerry E. Smith
RaidersNewsNetwork.com
A lot of things spooked folks at the end of the last millennium—as this book attests, some of them turned out to be real threats that need to be dealt with now. One of those very real things that went bump on the Internet was the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).
HAARP is a field of antennas on the ground in Southeastern Alaska linked together to work as one giant antenna. Today, it is the world’s largest radio frequency (RF) broadcaster, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of three to four billion watts. It uses a unique patented ability to focus the RF energy generated by the antenna field, injecting it into a spot at the very top of the atmosphere in a region called the ionosphere.
As you can imagine, injecting that much RF energy into a spot about twelve miles across by about two and a half miles deep (by about ninety miles up), heats the thin atmosphere of the ionospheric region by several thousand degrees. HAARP, then, is a type of device called an ionospheric heater.
HAARP is one of about twenty ionospheric heaters scattered around the planet and in use today–but it is the largest and most powerful, and the only one that can focus its output. This heating of the ionosphere allows scientists to do a number of things. Controlling and directing the processes and forces of the ionosphere by intentionally modifying it is called “ionospheric enhancement.”
An early HAARP document stated: "The heart of the program will be the development of a unique ionospheric heating capability to conduct the pioneering experiments required to adequately assess the potential for exploiting ionospheric enhancement technology for Department of Defense (DOD) purposes."[1]
What might those DOD purposes be? Something about winning wars, eh? HAARP proponents[2] claim it is nothing more than a simple civilian research station—which may be true, but what is it researching? It is not about understanding how the atmosphere works. That research was largely completed decades ago. The Executive Summary of “Applications and Research Opportunities Using HAARP” says:
"The HAARP facility, currently under development in Alaska, is the outgrowth of more than 30 years of ionospheric heating research. A wealth of experimental studies conducted at ionospheric heating installations, such as the ones in Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Tromso, Norway; Fairbanks, Alaska; and several installations in the former USSR brought the understanding of the physics and the phenomenology of the HF [High-frequency]-ionosphere interactions to a new plateau. The scientific field was ready to make the transition from pure research to applications in the civilian and military arenas."[3]
HAARP is about applying what we know to achieving military objectives. It is, in simplest terms, looking for ways to weaponize the atmosphere. It is but one of many programs seeking to control and direct natural processes—such as the weather, earthquakes, and tidal waves—to achieve military objectives; in effect, it seeks to draft Mother Nature.
The research at HAARP is being conducted without adequate multidisciplinary oversight. The research itself, much less any application or technology developed from the research, has tremendous potential for environmental and human disaster. While there are a multitude of concerns, the general public’s interest has centered on the possibilities of HAARP affecting the weather, setting off earthquakes, or being used for covert mind control. How this might be, I’ll outline in this chapter.
These concerns, although outlandish sounding, are real. Scientific American noted that a dogleg in the jet stream over HAARP in 2000 resulted in a swarm of out-of-season tornadoes in Florida.[4] HAARP is operating in frequencies known to have serious impacts on humans, yet no biological scientists are involved. The European[5] and Russian[6] parliaments have both demanded international oversight, and the U.S. has simply ignored their demands.
This is not like testing a new gun in a lab. This research is being done in the real world in real time with real natural systems and real potential for disaster—possibly irreversible disaster! The whole planet is the HAARP lab, and that makes every living thing an unwitting subject of the experiment, which is a violation of the Nuremberg Code.[7] None of us has given informed consent.
If this is civilian science as claimed, then the international scientific community should oversee it, as the entire planet is affected. If it is military, as is obvious despite official claims otherwise, then it should at least have a proper multidisciplinary review panel and personnel on the ground. Right now, neither of those conditions is being met.
On March, 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan called upon "… the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
This quest for the creation of a technology, of a weapon or weapons systems that would make atomic war impossible, was officially named the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The press lost no time in dubbing it "Star Wars" after the George Lucas movie. That initiative sent the United States’ military-industrial-scientific research community on the greatest and costliest weapons hunt in human history. Thousands of ideas were floated—hundreds of those were funded. Most lines of SDI research have since been abandoned. Some, however, are still being actively pursued to this day. Many people around the world, myself included, believe that HAARP is one of them.
Officially, "The HAARP Interactive Ionospheric Research Observatory is a major Arctic facility for the study of upper atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics and for Radio Science and Communications research. Among the instruments included at the facility are a high power, high-frequency (HF) phased array radio transmitter, numerous radio frequency and optical research instruments capable of observing and monitoring the complex auroral ionosphere, and site infrastructure to support research activities."[8]
The above is from the University of Alaska at Anchorage original HAARP website (that page has been slightly rewritten now). The Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) is the high-frequency-phased array radio transmitter mentioned in the paragraph above. It is the heart of the program.
Today, the IRI is a field of 180 towers, each 72 feet tall with two crossed, dipole antennas at the top of each tower. These antennas are for broadcasting in the High Frequency (HF) range, which is an audible range below the lowest ranges currently used for radio communications (below shortwave). Slung beneath the towers is a wire grid for reflecting upward any radio emissions from the antennas that heads toward the ground. Beneath the mesh are small buildings called shelters for the radio transmitters. All of these elements are linked together to act as one giant transmitting antenna. The 360 antenna elements of the field collectively output some 3.6 million watts. Injecting that output into the electrically charged ionospheric region magnifies the signal strength up to a thousand times, giving HAARP an effective radiated power (ERP) of three to four billion watts!
Alaska has two ionospheric heaters, HAARP and the HIPAS (HIgh Power Auroral Stimulation) Observatory, operated by the University of California at Los Angeles Plasma Physics Laboratory. Work there proved that ionospheric heaters could generate Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) radio waves to successfully find underground targets. In the late 1980s, sensors in Fairbanks picked up ELF waves generated in the ionosphere by HIPAS as they returned from deep underground. After interpretation, they clearly revealed an old mining tunnel below the surface. The success of this experiment was later used to convince the U.S. Senate to fund HAARP.[9]
HAARP has been successfully using the ionosphere to generate ELF since 1995, bathing most of the world in its signal, of which the wavelengths are so long that they circle the earth and penetrate deep into the earth and sea. The possibility of seeing deep into the earth led the Senate to fund HAARP, insisting that its primary mission would be to develop the capacity to conduct deep earth scans for nuclear counterproliferation efforts.
ELF/VLF radio waves penetrate deeply beneath the surface of the earth and interact with the geologic structure of the earth…Proper understanding of the physics of the generation and propagation of ELF/VLF waves and their interactions with earth materials will allow these waves to be used for applications such as sub-surface communications and exploration of the subsurface geological structure…to detect and image subterranean features such as tunnels, bunkers, and other potential military targets.
In 1994, the Senate Armed Services Committee noted the promising results of the high frequency active auroral research program (HAARP). This transmitter in Alaska, besides providing a world class research facility for ionospheric physics, could allow earth- penetrating tomography over most of the northern hemisphere. Such a capability would permit the detection and precise location of tunnels, shelters, and other underground shelters. The absence of such a capability has been noted as a serious weakness in the Department of Defense plans for precision attacks on hardened targets and for counterproliferation.[10]
Curiously, there is no official confirmation of HAARP ever having been used to target or monitor enemy underground bases. But HAARP officials do admit they have been using the same, deep-sea-penetrating ELF signals to communicate with deeply submerged submarines.
Mind Control and Mental Dysfunction
What about fears that HAARP could have a negative impact on the mental health of people populating entire regions of the globe, or could even be used to mind control or brainwash whole populations? HAARP’s ionospherically generated ELF is at exactly the same frequency at which the human brain works. Could we be picking up some part of those signals?
In a seminal article on HAARP in Nexus Magazine,[11] Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning describe how HAARP could be used to induce mental dysfunction, quoting from presidential security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski[12] on a proposal from UCLA’s Dr. MacDonald, saying: “Political strategists are tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behavior. Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonald—specialist in problems of warfare—says [an] accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic stroke ‘…could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the Earth.… In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period…’”
There has been concern that HAARP and other “sky busters” could be covertly used to mess with our minds for decades. One of the first projects to raise such concerns was the so-called "Russian Woodpecker."
The bicentennial of the American Revolution was celebrated on July 4, 1976. The Soviets made some "fireworks" of their own by beginning a series of broadcasts that became known to ham radio operators around the world as the "Russian Woodpecker" in that same year. The official Defense Department explanation of the Woodpecker signal was that it was an over-the-horizon radar system designed to detect enemy missile launches. This is essentially what the Over The Horizon Backscatter (OTH-B) program, the original occupier of the HAARP site, was intended to be. These broadcast-interfering electromagnetic signals were on the three to thirty megahertz (MHz) bands, and were usually pulsed at an on-off rate of ten per second, which gave the signal the characteristic tapping that gave rise to its being called the "Russian Woodpecker."
In The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur wrote: "A report published in the New York Times on October 30, 1976, revealed that in recent months a mysterious broadband, short-wave radio signal had been broadcast intermittently from the Soviet Union. The signal was so powerful that it disrupted radio and telecommunications throughout the world.… Dr. Zaret is concerned about the Russian signal…because of its potential hazard to human beings…it was very clear that such an encoding impressed onto carrier wavelengths could have a central-nervous-system effect."[13]
In the early 1950s, the Soviets began directing a microwave beam at the United States embassy in Moscow. They spent the next four decades using our embassy workers as guinea pigs for their electromagnetic radiation (EMR) experiments. Washington, D.C. was oddly silent regarding the Moscow embassy bombardment when it was discovered in 1962. It was investigated by the CIA, who brought in an outside consultant, Dr. Milton Zaret, giving his investigation the code name "Project Pandora."[14] Zaret was startled to discover that the beam was focused precisely upon the ambassador's office. The intensity of the bombardment was not made public, but when the State Department finally admitted to the existence of the Moscow signal over a decade later, it was announced that it was "fairly low."
The Moscow signal finally became public knowledge in the mid-seventies. It then became the subject of heated debate in the media. In 1976, The Los Angeles Times reported that the United States ambassador to the USSR had informed his Moscow staff that the microwaves that the Soviets were beaming at the United States embassy in Moscow could cause emotional and behavioral problems, as well as leukemia, cancer, and cataracts. At least one of our ambassadors died as a result of exposure to the signal.
The Russian Woodpecker would appear to be an expansion of the Moscow signal, upping the ante from one building, the U. S. Embassy, to the whole United States. In the fall of 1976, after just a few months of operation, the Soviets completed the first of several expansions of their ELF Woodpecker grid. That expansion was accompanied by a major piece of curiosity, if not an outright criminal act. In 1977, the United States government sold the Soviets a supermagnet they knew was going to become part of the Woodpecker program. This magnet was a forty-ton monster capable of generating a magnetic field 250,000 times more powerful than that of the earth's magnetic field. Its purpose was to override, blank out, and/or interfere with the earth's natural magnetic field to permit the Soviet Woodpecker signals to penetrate to the United States. The United States not only knew what it was for, they sent a team of scientists to help the Russians install it! This supermagnet was installed at the Gomel site, powered by the Chernobyl reactor. Eleven years later, in 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor outside of Kiev, Ukraine exploded, ending these signals.
Following the 1977 upgrade, a series of mysterious sonic booms were heard off the eastern coast of the United States. Some researchers believe these were the result of the newly enhanced Woodpecker being calibrated. A United Press International (UPI) wire story of December, 22, 1977, reported that "a series of mysterious atmospheric explosions were reported along the New Jersey shore last night for the third time this month.… Police said the explosions were preceded by a series of rumblings. On December 2, there were two similar incidents, but the Federal Aviation Administration, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have been unable to offer any explanation for the blasts."
The following month, the Associated Press (AP) reported that a White House spokesman had informed the press that the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) would conduct a "measured and prudent" inquiry into the "mysterious atmospheric booms off the East Coast." The NRL never released its findings, but a little over a decade later it became a member of the HAARP project. Coincidence?
David Brinkley, on the TV show "NBC Magazine,"[15] spoke of the Woodpecker signal. He revealed to his audience that the northwestern United States had been continuously bombarded by the USSR with low-frequency waves set at the approximate level of biological frequencies. Brinkley said: "As I say I find it hard to believe, it is crazy and none of us here knows what to make of it: the Russian Government is known to be trying to change human behavior by external electronic influences. We do know that much. And we know that some kind of Russian transmitter is bombarding this country with extreme low frequency radio waves."
Hypnotists have long known that when a subject is given a post-hypnotic command to perform some act in the waking state, the subject will do it and rationalize the act as his or her own idea. In one such example, hypnotists put Robert Kennedy's convicted killer, Sirhan Sirhan, under, then told him to swing from the bars of his cell like a monkey when he was awakened. Sirhan carried out the instruction. When told he had been hypnotized and shown a video of himself acting like a monkey, he insisted that it had been entirely his own idea; he said he needed the exercise! Instructions, thoughts, or beliefs transmitted to a target subject could similarly be accepted by the subject as his or her own thoughts. This is the essence of research into mind control effected through the use of electromagnetic broadcasts.
In HAARP’s use of the ionosphere to rebroadcast in the ELF and/or microwave ranges, we can clearly see an area where there is a great potential for danger in the project. Could HAARP rebroadcasting in the ELF band via the aurora, as it was funded to do by the Senate to conduct earth-penetrating tomography studies, produce the same unhealthy effects ascribed to the Russian Woodpecker? Many people today are convinced that they are the target of ELF behavior modification operations. Some suspect HAARP is a part of these attacks on their minds.
Even if HAARP is not a CIA/DOD black project, if it really is just a scientific experiment, it is no less dangerous. Medical researchers have generated a literal mountain of documentation in the last two decades showing unmistakable health hazards associated with EMR exposure. How dare they ignore the health risks to the people (and other life forms) living above the underground targets they plan to irradiate? What about all those who will receive the fallout of this radiation meant to penetrate to submarines? Even if they are not deliberately trying to fry our brains, they might still succeed in turning our grey matter into three-minute meals.
Other Concerns
Nor is health, physical or mental, the only area of concern with HAARP rebroadcasting from the aurora. As noted in a HAARP fact sheet, "Since the sun's radiation creates and maintains the ionosphere, sudden variations in this radiation such as those caused by solar flares can affect the performance of radio systems. Sometimes the changes are sufficient to induce large transient currents in electric power transmission grids, causing widespread power outages."[16] HAARP is designed to duplicate solar phenomena. It is certainly not inconceivable that it too will cause similar power outages.
For some, a power outage is merely an inconvenience. For others, it can mean damaged electronic equipment, particularly computers; doctors forced to operate by flashlight; and, as in the infamous blackouts of New York City, it often means rape, burglary, and murder. Are you prepared to let some scientist tinkering with the aurora turn out your lights?
Another area for concern is this possibility of creating earthquakes. In the 1890s, Nicola Tesla demonstrated the potential for causing earthquakes through either creation of artificial standing waves or through inducing sympathetic resonance.[17] The United States Department of Energy successfully caused a massive earthquake in the Nevada desert by detonating a high-yield nuclear device that had been intentionally placed on a fault line in Project Faultless.[18] Additionally, United States scientists have discovered that earthquakes cause changes in the ionosphere and in the magnetosphere; and there is some reason for concern that the reverse, causing changes in the ionosphere and/or magnetosphere, could trigger earthquakes.[19]
Dr. Rosalie Bertell has written extensively about the use of nuclear weapons, in particular depleted uranium, and has written two books: No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth and Planet Earth, The Latest Weapon of War. The latter includes a lengthy section on HAARP. In it, Dr. Bertell noted several potential dangers from the HAARP signal, including mental disruption to both humans and migratory species as well as earthquakes and weather/climate change:
Ionospheric heaters such as HAARP create extremely low frequency (ELF) waves which are reflected back to the Earth by the ionosphere. These rays can be directed though the Earth in a method called deep earth tomography. Since the beamed radiation used to convert the direct electrical current of the electrojet into alternating current must be pulsed, it is reasonable to assume that the ELF radiation it generates will also be pulsed. Pulsed ELF waves can be used to convey mechanical effects, vibrations, at great distances through the Earth. By studying their “shadow”—that is, where the vibrations are interrupted—it is possible to understand and reconstruct the dimensions of underground structures.
The 10-Hertz ELF wave can easily pass through people, and there is concern that since it corresponds to brain wave frequency it can disrupt human thought…such waves may also have a profound effect on migration patterns of fish and wild animals as they rely on undisturbed energy fields to find their way. Moreover, the wider effects of deep-earth tomography are unknown. Certainly, it has the capability to cause disturbance of volcanoes and tectonic plates, which in turn have an effect on the weather. Earthquakes, for example, are known to interact with the ionosphere.
Deep Earth probes appear to be an integral part of the military’s aim to control and manipulate natural Earth processes. Whilst the potential of ELF waves to generate Earth movements, with associated freak weather, is frightening enough, it is also clear that the interaction between the earth and ionosphere that takes place during ELF generation and transmission may be capable of inducing more direct weather effects.[20]
What about birds flying through HAARP's intense RF beam? The HAARP site was nearly half wetlands, in a vast stretch of nearly flat, wet "bush." HAARP is located in the heart of a prime waterfowl migratory path! HAARP’s Final Environmental Impact Statement acknowledges this. It states that HAARP "lies within the Copper River Basin, which is one of Alaska's more important migration corridors." And yet it insists that "no significant impacts to birds would result from the construction of the HAARP facility." The most they did was to propose putting some colored streamers on the antenna masts to help reduce the number of birds flying into them!
Salmon, caribou, and other migratory species may be affected by HAARP as well. That is because altering the electrojet might cause alterations of the earth's magnetic field. This little-noted side effect of modulating the electrojet might have profound and unseen consequences for "spaceship" earth and its passengers. The magnetically sensitive material magnetite has been found in salmon and caribou brains. It has also been found in the human brain.
The Alaskan monthly, Bush Blade, carried comments by the late geomagnetic researcher Lloyd Zirbes, who strongly opposed HAARP. He wrote, "…disruption of the Earth's magnetic field will complete damages done by the nuclear bomb blasts in the natural radiation belts. Earth's magnetic field keeps the planet in balance. Projected results of the HAARP project may include disturbance of the circadian rhythms of human beings and increased exposure to radiation as the magnetic field is attenuated."[21]
Discovery Magazine discussed the possibility that disruption of the earth's internal dynamo and the alteration of the upper atmosphere's magnetic belts could "create a premature reversal of the magnetic poles, worsen the newly discovered wobble of the Earth, and possibly create a total polar reversal or Earth shift. During at least one [previous] reversal, magnetic north may have changed direction by as much as 4 to 8 degrees in a single day."[22]
In 1988, scientists at the U.S. Naval Observatory and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that the earth had developed a wobble in its spin. The cause of that wobble is still unknown. Some suspect that it was caused by the Russian Woodpecker signal. The 2004 Asian tsunami not only added a new wobble to the earth’s spin, it also changed the rate of spin, changing the length of a day by a fraction of a second. What effect, if any, HAARP may have on the magnetic pole or these wobbles is equally unknown. Do we want the DOD to get the answer the hard way?
During a reversal of the magnetic pole, the strength of the earth's magnet field would collapse, then rebuild in the opposite polarity. During the period of collapse and rebirth of the field, the earth would be without the protection of the magnetosphere. The only living things to survive would be deep in the earth or the sea. The flood of hard radiation from the sun and space would wipe out humanity, and virtually all species that live exposed to the sky. We know that changes in the earth's interior affect the magnetosphere. If the reverse is also the case, the magnetosphere affecting the interior, then ignorant or intentional misuse of HAARP has the potential to virtually wipe out life on earth.
HAARP Timeline
Dr. Bernard J. Eastlund received his patent for a “Method And Apparatus For Altering A Region In The Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, And/Or Magnetosphere” on August 11, 1987, while working for the Atlantic Richfield Co. subsidiary ARCO Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI).[23] It was but the first of a dozen related patents that scientists on APTI's payroll would take out over the next few years. These were for an antenna field forty miles on a side intended to create a shield in the upper atmosphere that no intercontinental ballistics missile (ICBM) could penetrate. This suite of patents was explicitly for a ground-based SDI system that would realize President Reagan’s dream. They would eventually form the intellectual property that the HAARP program is based on—or not, depending on who you listen to. Another reason for HAARP researchers to be concerned about HAARP having an effect on the weather is because an ability to modify the weather is laid out in those patents.
Officially, HAARP was conceived over two years later, on the morning of December 13, 1989, when a joint Navy-Air Force meeting was held at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Washington, D.C. It has since been described as a discussion of their mutual interest in carrying out a DOD program in the area of ionospheric modification. Military and HAARP documents insist that it was at this meeting that the need for a unique heating facility to conduct "critical experiments" relating to potential DOD applications was “identified.” Other meetings and a number of symposia soon followed.
The Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 1990 provided funds for the creation of HAARP, jointly managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research. Three contracts were awarded to ARCO Power Technologies (APTI, Eastlund’s boss) to begin feasibility studies in FY1991. In FY1992, the principal contract to begin construction was awarded, also to APTI.
In FY1992, the environmental impact process began, ending a year later with the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) being filed on October 18, 1993. The problem with these assessments is that they only addressed the effects on the ground of the energy coming directly from the towers and completely ignored what would happen in and to the ionosphere, much less what the re-radiated energy from the ionosphere would do. Several activists, including the group Trustees for Alaska,[24] have demanded a new FEIS.
In early November 1993, the United States Air Force announced, via press release, that the prime contractor on the HAARP program was APTI. Initial prototype construction began at the Gakona, Alaska, site in late 1993 and was completed a year later in late '94. During that time, ARCO divested itself of APTI selling the firm to a major defense contractor, E-Systems of Dallas, Texas.
In 1995, Raytheon bought E-Systems and all the APTI patents it held. Congress budgeted $10 million for HAARP for 1996 under "Counterproliferation—Advanced Development" spending. In the 1997 Descriptive Summary of the Counterproliferation Advanced Development Budget, HAARP appears under the sub-heading "Project P539 Counterforce." There it is recorded that "In FY96, Congress added $10 million to be used for the High-Frequency Acoustic [sic] Auroral Research Program (HAARP) to this project." Elsewhere in that report, it states "…in FY96 only, the Congressionally added HAARP program funds will be used to explore the ability of auroral transmissions to detect and locate underground structures of the type where WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] can be developed or stored."
After Raytheon acquired HAARP and the Eastlund patents, the program received full funding, but only after agreeing to make earth penetrating tomography (EPT) the project's top priority. Amazingly, now—more than a decade later—not a single word appears on the official HAARP website about what they have done on this. It would appear that they have done nothing! Are they thumbing their collective nose at the U.S. Senate, or have they been developing this technology and don't want to let the world know about it?
While the HAARP final ionospheric research instrument (FIRI) was planned to be a field of 180 antennas, a smaller set of elements was initially constructed so that the predicted performance could be verified before the entire facility was built. That initial phase of the program was called the Developmental Prototype (DP). By April of 1995, the DP array of 48 antenna towers arranged as eight columns by six rows had been completed and the first round of tests performed. And there the program sat, with no further progress, at least officially, for many years. The 960-kilowatt transmitter, however, was powerful enough to produce ionospherically generated ELF, which was used for communication with the submarine fleet.
Things went from bad to worse for the folks at HAARP after the turn of the century. They wanted to finish erecting the final ionospheric research instrument (FIRI) by 2002 but got their budget slashed instead. Adding insult to injury, in August of 2002, Russia's Interfax news agency reported that the Russian state Duma (their version of Congress or Parliament) expressed concern about HAARP, calling it a program to develop "a qualitatively new type of weapon.” A joint commission of the state Duma's International Affairs and Defense Committees issued a report that said: "Under the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) the USA is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves. The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapon differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component."
The report further claimed that the USA's plan to carry out large-scale scientific experiments under the HAARP program, and not controlled by the global community, would create weapons capable of jamming radio communications, disrupting equipment installed on spaceships and rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity networks and in oil and gas pipelines and have a negative impact on the mental health of people populating entire regions. An appeal, signed by ninety deputies, demanding that an international ban be put on such large-scale geophysical experiments was sent to President Vladimir Putin, the United Nations (UN) and other international organizations, the parliaments and leaders of the UN member countries, the scientific public, and mass media outlets.
The project got moving again when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Air Force and Navy to run HAARP for them in November, 2002.
What is DARPA? Per one of its old fact sheets: "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions."
Note that “high risk” element. Here we may be talking about several kinds of risk, including political and environmental. Back before the breakup of the Soviet Union, when HAARP began, many were concerned that the Star Wars weapons program would upset the global balance in that it might give the U.S. “first strike” capability and at the same time negate Russia’s ability to retaliate, thus destroying Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the foundation of Cold War détente—possibly leading to a preemptive Russian first strike and the outbreak of World War III. On the other hand, some researchers suggested that HAARP was capable of severe disruptions of natural systems, from weather out of control to a magnetic pole shift or reversal, to other bits of environmental mayhem too horrible to contemplate—up to and including destroying all life on earth! Talk about high risk!
There are eight technical offices in DARPA. HAARP was placed under the Tactical Technology Office (TTO). According to its fact sheet, "The Tactical Technology Office engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced technology development of military systems, emphasizing the ‘system’ and ‘subsystem’ approach to the development of Unmanned Systems, Space Systems and Tactical Multipliers."[25]
Note that "tactical multipliers"—this may be a tip-off that HAARP was seen by DARPA as some sort of a force multiplier. “Tactical multiplier” is a military term referring to a factor that dramatically increases (hence "multiplies") the combat effectiveness of a military force. Some common force multipliers are: technology, morale, geographical features, training, strength of numbers, and the weather.
Ionospheric Enhancement, what HAARP is officially built to do, was a tactical multiplier mentioned in "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025,"[26] a study conducted by the Air University “to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future."[27] It states, “A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all together; in 2025 we can ‘Own the Weather.’"
Dr. Sheldon Z. Meth was the project manager of HAARP at DARPA. Not only was Dr. Meth in charge of HAARP; he also managed programs called Air Laser and MAgneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM)! Does it seem odd to you that a guy running a laser development program and designing some kind of bomb would also be tinkering with how the top of the atmosphere reacts to radio waves?
On April 23, 2007, System Planning Corporation (SPC) announced that Dr. Sheldon Z. Meth would join the company as chief technology officer.[28] A company press release described him as coming to SPC “… from duties as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he was responsible for the development of new generations of advanced strategic and tactical warfare and military space technologies to enhance U.S. defense capabilities against emerging national security challenges.” Prior to his DARPA experience, Dr. Meth held chief scientist positions at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for nearly fifteen years. SAIC (CIAs spelled backward) is one of the nation’s top ten defense contractors, with its primary clientele being the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and various alphabet agencies within the intelligence community, in particular the National Security Agency (NSA, “no such agency”). I think Dr. Meth’s connections to SAIC is significant, revealing a connection between HAARP and Intel.
The official DARPA web page for HAARP (now taken down) listed four things they’ve done with HAARP, but only used three numbered bullets:
(1) the generation of extremely low frequency/very low frequency radio waves for submarine and other subsurface communication, and the reduction of charged particle populations in the radiation belts to ensure safe spacecraft systems operations;
(2) the control of electron density gradients and the refractive properties in selected regions of the ionosphere to create radio wave propagation channels; and
(3) the generation of optical and infrared emissions in space to calibrate space sensors.
Dr. Meth does not have trouble counting—using the antenna field produces ELF and affects the radiation belts! Heating the ionosphere by several thousand degrees heats the molecules of the air to the point that they literally blow apart. Breaking the bonds of the molecule gives off a package of energy, including a "scream" of ELF. It also converts the air into plasma, the fourth state of matter. Plasma is electrically conductive, so it responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. HAARP converts a chunk of the atmosphere into plasma, which then goes out into space. It keeps going until it runs into something to stop it—the lines of force of the earth's magnetic field. There, the plasma is trapped between the lines of force, spreading out, possibly forming the shield that President Reagan asked for.
As you may know, the earth is surrounded by the Van Allen Radiation Belts, named after James Van Allen (September 7, 1914–August 9, 2006), who proved they were there by setting off atom bombs in them in 1958. These belts are areas where the earth’s magnetic field traps radiation.
Space shuttles, the International Space Station, and spy satellites all fly well below the Van Allen belts. But to get satellites up into geosynchronous orbit, much less to go to the moon, Mars, or elsewhere in the solar system or beyond, craft have to pass through the Van Allen belts. One of the arguments used by those who say we never went to the moon is that it was impossible to get there because the radiation would have killed or incapacitated any astronaut who made the trip. Van Allen dismissed these claims. He was also a strong supporter of HAARP, by the way.
If HAARP can reduce the hard radiation in these fields, it could be a very good thing for those trying to get into outer space. But there are substantial possible downsides to this. Weakening of the belts could harm electronics and organisms on earth. According to the Wikipedia article,[29] dissipating the belts might even influence the behavior of earth's magnetic poles!
Exactly how this reduction of the radiation in the belts is accomplished is not well described in the available literature. It seems to involve inducing the belts to precipitate out (rain radiation to earth) by injecting either radio waves or excess particles into them. So what happens when this hard radiation falls into the upper atmosphere? Could it create a cascade effect, with effects reaching all the way to the ground? What if the attempt to overburden the belt fails and instead of causing it to shed excess radiation, it just beefs it up?
DARPA’s including “the reduction of charged particle populations in the radiation belts to ensure safe spacecraft systems operations” in the same bullet with “the generation of extremely low frequency/very low frequency radio waves for submarine and other subsurface communication” is clear evidence that doing one also accomplishes the other—that is, the HAARP antenna array generates radio emissions that do both at the same time.
As repeatedly stated—and admitted to by everyone, although downplayed by the civilians at the University of Alaska—one of the prime purposes of the project was to communicate with deeply submerged submarines. This is certainly a valid military use for this technology, although finding a “dual use” civilian side might be a bit of a stretch. Every time HAARP talks with the sub fleet it also sends plumes of plasma out into space, throwing away a piece of our atmosphere!
Dr. Bernard Eastlund’s second APTI patent was for a "Method for producing a shell of relativistic particles at an altitude above the Earth's surface.”[30] This patent described a method for creating a "death zone" for anything electronic flying through this “shell of relativistic particles,” similar to the effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).
An EMP is a burst of radiation released immediately after a nuclear explosion. The EMP is essentially an electric field and a magnetic field moving away from the blast. The electromagnetic pulse burns out electronic circuitry, destroying communications systems, computers, and other sophisticated electronic instruments. The implications of the EMP are uncertain, but some experts assert that the EMP released by one large nuclear explosion over the central United States could cause an electrical blackout affecting the entire country. Further, it is possible that the EMP would damage the circuitry in missiles so that they would be unable to reach their targets. The EMP was first detected during a nuclear test at Johnston Island in 1962.[31]
Early HAARP documents discussed how the facility could be used to create artificial EMPs. After Eastlund went public, all such mentions disappeared from official sources. Many researchers are convinced that HAARP can cause EMP-like effects in the upper atmosphere. HAARP transmissions excite beta particles or electrons in the magnetosphere making them move very fast, nearly to speed of light—Eastlund called these relativistic particles. HAARP may be ready, right this minute, to bring down enemy missiles or spy satellites–or friendly ones! Some researchers are convinced that the space shuttle Columbia was brought down by HAARP![32]
On February 17, 2003, a press release went out announcing that BAE Systems North America had reached a definitive agreement with Advanced Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI) to purchase the corporation for $27 million in cash (note that somewhere along the line, the “A” in APTI changed from “ARCO” to “Advanced”). One year and two months after purchasing APTI, BAE Systems announced that it had received a contract from the Navy for $35 million to complete the HAARP FIRI. After purchasing APTI, BAE Systems became the owners of the intellectual property, the patents that make HAARP possible.
The contract was awarded to BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS) division. Just the sound of “Information & Electronic Warfare” should have been ringing alarm bells. Perhaps it did, as that division has since changed its name to the “kinder and gentler” sounding Electronics and Integrated Solutions Operating Group[33], which is defined by the company as “a major defense electronics component of BAE Systems, Inc.,” a U.S. corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems PLC, a multinational corporation headquartered in the United Kingdom. BAE Systems PLC is the result of over one hundred years of mergers and acquisitions, with the former British Aerospace at its core.
BAE Systems lost no time in farming out the HAARP contract. Five days after getting the job from the Navy, it subcontracted the transmitter portion of the project to DRS Technologies[34], and twelve days later, the subcontractor who would put up the remaining antennas, Phazar Corporation,[35] sent out its own press release. DARPA announced the completion of this phase of HAARP’s history via its website on March 9, 2006. BAE Systems held a grand ribbon cutting ceremony the following year, in June of 2007.
HAARP is today a multi-million-dollar “upper atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics” observatory—that may or may not also be a whole lot more. Remember, it is the High-frequency ACTIVE Auroral Research Program. Very little is passive about HAARP; it is designed to do things, to modify the atmosphere. Like the report, “Applications and Research Opportunities Using HAARP,” said, HAARP is about making “the transition from pure research to applications in the civilian and military arenas.” I think we should be told what those applications will be. Even if HAARP is exactly what it says it is, is that something good?
From an environmental point of view, there is no end to the potential horrors of HAARP and similar technologies. Oddly enough, my greatest fear now is that HAARP might be exactly what it says it is—an experimental base from which clueless civilian scientists are manipulated into performing questionable experiments on vast planetary systems with unknown potential outcomes—even if it doesn’t say that in quite those words.
HAARP's primary avowed purpose, stated most simply, is to find out if the ionosphere can be "tweaked" so as to advance military objectives. Common sense tells us that "weaponizing the atmosphere" could be a serious mistake—even if it works. If we achieve this technology, how long will it be before our enemies gain it, too? What happens when we and they go head to head in a war using geophysical weapons? Nukes are nice in comparison to the hell that could be unleashed.
Unfortunately, there is little the average citizen can do about HAARP directly. Activists have had little impact on the project despite nearly two decades of activism. The solution, broadly, has to be in educating the public and our leaders about HAARP and this technology, and in using politics to force our leaders to alter the way we fund and conduct science.
Jerry E. Smith is a freelance writer and lecturer currently working for Adventures Unlimited Press. His latest book is Weather Warfare:The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature?—a follow up to HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon. He also co-authored Secrets of the Holy Lance with George Piccard. Visit his website at www.jerryesmith.com.
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[1]Notes
Executive Summary of the report entitled “Applications and Research Opportunities Using HAARP” issued by a scientific committee sponsored by the Air Force’s Phillips Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research (and released by the Technical Information Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, in 1995).
[2] Abe Streep, “The Military's Mystery Machine: The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, has been called a missile-defense tool and a mind-control device. The truth is a bit less ominous” Popular Science Magazine (June 18, 2008).
[3] Dennis Papdopoulos and Committee, “HAARP Research and Applications,” USAF Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, Joint Program Report, November 5, 1998. HAARPResearchAndApplications.pdf describes and documents the scientific uses and applications created by the HF Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). Covers the need for its existence, the range it can cover, its capabilities, and a manifest of acquisitions.
[4] Ross N. Hoffman, “Controlling Hurricanes: Can Hurricanes and Other Severe Tropical Storms Be Moderated or Deflected?” Scientific American (October 2004).
[5] Michel Chossudovsky, “It's Not Only Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Washington's New World Order Weapons Have The Ability To Trigger Climate Change,” citing European Parliament, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Policy, Brussels, doc. no. A4-0005/99 (January 14, 1999).
[6] “US HAARP Weapon Development Concerns Russian Duma,” Interfax News Agency, Moscow (August 8, 2002).
[7] “Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law,” No. 10, Vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949) 181-182, http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html.
[8] http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/.
[9] Dr. Dennis Papadopoulos was identified as a chief scientist on the HAARP project by the 1996 BBC/A&E television program, “Masters of the Ionosphere.” On it, he spoke enthusiastically of the first test of earth penetrating tomography capability. He was talking about HIPAS, but the show made it seem like he was talking about HAARP. He said: "There was an experiment in which there was a particular old mine which was about 30 meters underground and we were trying to see whether we could really image it…" using ionospherically generated ELF. According to Dr. Papadopoulos, "This was really the first test of the concept in the world and we were, I was actually amazed because usually a first experiment always fails. This experiment succeeded beyond our imagination. It is a fantastic remote sensing tool. I can do remote sensing of the ionosphere, of the ground, of the underground, of the seas. I can measure the temperature of the water. I think, you know, dreams that I have dreamt for the last, you know, twenty-five years are becoming reality and the first one happened two weeks ago. That was really a sweet moment" (see http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/543659).
[10] A Program Research & Development Announcement (PRDA) with the title “Detection and Imaging of Underground Structures Using ELF/VLF Radio Waves” issued by the Space Effects Division of the Phillips Laboratory Geophysics Directorate, which asked for research proposals related to the “theoretical understanding and practical development and demonstration of techniques for the detection of underground structures using ELF/VLF radio waves generated by natural and man-made sources.”
[11] Nick Begich, “HAARP: Vandalism in the Sky?” Nexus Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1 (December 1995-January 1996).
[12] Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, 1st ed., (New York: Penguin 1st edition [May 27, 1971]).
[13] Paul Brodeur, The Zapping of America, (Norton, 1977).
[14] http://www.geocities.com/adrian9999999999/pandora.htm.
[15] Broadcast July 18, 1981.
[16] www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/factSheet.html
[17] Dale Pond and Walter Baumgartner, Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine: With Tesla's Original Patents Plus New Blueprints to Build Your Own Working Model (Message, 1995).
[18] http://www.yuccamountain.org/faultless.html
[19] Jerry E. Smith, "Invisible Warfare: Geophysical Weapons of the Secret Government," Paranoia: The Conspiracy and Paranormal Reader, Issue 45 (Fall 2007) http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/
[20]Rosalie Bertell, Planet Earth, The Latest Weapon of War (United Kingdom: Quartet, 2002).
[21] Cook Inlet Monthly Bush Blade (February, 1994).
[22] May 1992.
[23] U.S. Patent Number 4,686,605.
[24] http://www.trustees.org/.
[25] http://www.darpa.mil/tto/.
[26] http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/v3c15/v3c15-1.htm.
[27] http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/index.htm.
[28] “System Planning Corporation Names Dr. Sheldon Meth Chief Technology Officer,” PR Newswire, April 23, 2007, http://www.sys-con.com/node/365605.
[29] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt.
[30] U.S. Patent 5038664: Method For Producing A Shell Of Relativistic Particles At An Altitude Above The Earth's Surface; Inventors: Eastlund; Bernard J., Spring, TX; Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC; Issued: August 13, 1991; Filed: January 10, 1985.
[31] Eric Semler, James Benjamin, and Adam Gross, The Language of Nuclear War: An Intelligent Citizen's Dictionary, (New York: Harper & Row, 1987).
[32] http://www.columbiassacrifice.com/.
[33] http://www.baesystems.com/Businesses/EIS/.
[34] “DRS Technologies Receives $23.3 Million Contract to Provide High-Frequency Radio Transmitters,” Business Wire, June 15, 2004, http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/contracts-bids-public/5617465-1.html.
[35] “Antenna Products Corporation Awarded Contract,” February 07, 2005, http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050207005636&newsLang=en.
Posted: March 25, 2010
11:00 am Eastern
By Jerry E. Smith
RaidersNewsNetwork.com
A lot of things spooked folks at the end of the last millennium—as this book attests, some of them turned out to be real threats that need to be dealt with now. One of those very real things that went bump on the Internet was the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).
HAARP is a field of antennas on the ground in Southeastern Alaska linked together to work as one giant antenna. Today, it is the world’s largest radio frequency (RF) broadcaster, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of three to four billion watts. It uses a unique patented ability to focus the RF energy generated by the antenna field, injecting it into a spot at the very top of the atmosphere in a region called the ionosphere.
As you can imagine, injecting that much RF energy into a spot about twelve miles across by about two and a half miles deep (by about ninety miles up), heats the thin atmosphere of the ionospheric region by several thousand degrees. HAARP, then, is a type of device called an ionospheric heater.
HAARP is one of about twenty ionospheric heaters scattered around the planet and in use today–but it is the largest and most powerful, and the only one that can focus its output. This heating of the ionosphere allows scientists to do a number of things. Controlling and directing the processes and forces of the ionosphere by intentionally modifying it is called “ionospheric enhancement.”
An early HAARP document stated: "The heart of the program will be the development of a unique ionospheric heating capability to conduct the pioneering experiments required to adequately assess the potential for exploiting ionospheric enhancement technology for Department of Defense (DOD) purposes."[1]
What might those DOD purposes be? Something about winning wars, eh? HAARP proponents[2] claim it is nothing more than a simple civilian research station—which may be true, but what is it researching? It is not about understanding how the atmosphere works. That research was largely completed decades ago. The Executive Summary of “Applications and Research Opportunities Using HAARP” says:
"The HAARP facility, currently under development in Alaska, is the outgrowth of more than 30 years of ionospheric heating research. A wealth of experimental studies conducted at ionospheric heating installations, such as the ones in Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Tromso, Norway; Fairbanks, Alaska; and several installations in the former USSR brought the understanding of the physics and the phenomenology of the HF [High-frequency]-ionosphere interactions to a new plateau. The scientific field was ready to make the transition from pure research to applications in the civilian and military arenas."[3]
HAARP is about applying what we know to achieving military objectives. It is, in simplest terms, looking for ways to weaponize the atmosphere. It is but one of many programs seeking to control and direct natural processes—such as the weather, earthquakes, and tidal waves—to achieve military objectives; in effect, it seeks to draft Mother Nature.
The research at HAARP is being conducted without adequate multidisciplinary oversight. The research itself, much less any application or technology developed from the research, has tremendous potential for environmental and human disaster. While there are a multitude of concerns, the general public’s interest has centered on the possibilities of HAARP affecting the weather, setting off earthquakes, or being used for covert mind control. How this might be, I’ll outline in this chapter.
These concerns, although outlandish sounding, are real. Scientific American noted that a dogleg in the jet stream over HAARP in 2000 resulted in a swarm of out-of-season tornadoes in Florida.[4] HAARP is operating in frequencies known to have serious impacts on humans, yet no biological scientists are involved. The European[5] and Russian[6] parliaments have both demanded international oversight, and the U.S. has simply ignored their demands.
This is not like testing a new gun in a lab. This research is being done in the real world in real time with real natural systems and real potential for disaster—possibly irreversible disaster! The whole planet is the HAARP lab, and that makes every living thing an unwitting subject of the experiment, which is a violation of the Nuremberg Code.[7] None of us has given informed consent.
If this is civilian science as claimed, then the international scientific community should oversee it, as the entire planet is affected. If it is military, as is obvious despite official claims otherwise, then it should at least have a proper multidisciplinary review panel and personnel on the ground. Right now, neither of those conditions is being met.
On March, 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan called upon "… the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
This quest for the creation of a technology, of a weapon or weapons systems that would make atomic war impossible, was officially named the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The press lost no time in dubbing it "Star Wars" after the George Lucas movie. That initiative sent the United States’ military-industrial-scientific research community on the greatest and costliest weapons hunt in human history. Thousands of ideas were floated—hundreds of those were funded. Most lines of SDI research have since been abandoned. Some, however, are still being actively pursued to this day. Many people around the world, myself included, believe that HAARP is one of them.
Officially, "The HAARP Interactive Ionospheric Research Observatory is a major Arctic facility for the study of upper atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics and for Radio Science and Communications research. Among the instruments included at the facility are a high power, high-frequency (HF) phased array radio transmitter, numerous radio frequency and optical research instruments capable of observing and monitoring the complex auroral ionosphere, and site infrastructure to support research activities."[8]
The above is from the University of Alaska at Anchorage original HAARP website (that page has been slightly rewritten now). The Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) is the high-frequency-phased array radio transmitter mentioned in the paragraph above. It is the heart of the program.
Today, the IRI is a field of 180 towers, each 72 feet tall with two crossed, dipole antennas at the top of each tower. These antennas are for broadcasting in the High Frequency (HF) range, which is an audible range below the lowest ranges currently used for radio communications (below shortwave). Slung beneath the towers is a wire grid for reflecting upward any radio emissions from the antennas that heads toward the ground. Beneath the mesh are small buildings called shelters for the radio transmitters. All of these elements are linked together to act as one giant transmitting antenna. The 360 antenna elements of the field collectively output some 3.6 million watts. Injecting that output into the electrically charged ionospheric region magnifies the signal strength up to a thousand times, giving HAARP an effective radiated power (ERP) of three to four billion watts!
Alaska has two ionospheric heaters, HAARP and the HIPAS (HIgh Power Auroral Stimulation) Observatory, operated by the University of California at Los Angeles Plasma Physics Laboratory. Work there proved that ionospheric heaters could generate Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) radio waves to successfully find underground targets. In the late 1980s, sensors in Fairbanks picked up ELF waves generated in the ionosphere by HIPAS as they returned from deep underground. After interpretation, they clearly revealed an old mining tunnel below the surface. The success of this experiment was later used to convince the U.S. Senate to fund HAARP.[9]
HAARP has been successfully using the ionosphere to generate ELF since 1995, bathing most of the world in its signal, of which the wavelengths are so long that they circle the earth and penetrate deep into the earth and sea. The possibility of seeing deep into the earth led the Senate to fund HAARP, insisting that its primary mission would be to develop the capacity to conduct deep earth scans for nuclear counterproliferation efforts.
ELF/VLF radio waves penetrate deeply beneath the surface of the earth and interact with the geologic structure of the earth…Proper understanding of the physics of the generation and propagation of ELF/VLF waves and their interactions with earth materials will allow these waves to be used for applications such as sub-surface communications and exploration of the subsurface geological structure…to detect and image subterranean features such as tunnels, bunkers, and other potential military targets.
In 1994, the Senate Armed Services Committee noted the promising results of the high frequency active auroral research program (HAARP). This transmitter in Alaska, besides providing a world class research facility for ionospheric physics, could allow earth- penetrating tomography over most of the northern hemisphere. Such a capability would permit the detection and precise location of tunnels, shelters, and other underground shelters. The absence of such a capability has been noted as a serious weakness in the Department of Defense plans for precision attacks on hardened targets and for counterproliferation.[10]
Curiously, there is no official confirmation of HAARP ever having been used to target or monitor enemy underground bases. But HAARP officials do admit they have been using the same, deep-sea-penetrating ELF signals to communicate with deeply submerged submarines.
Mind Control and Mental Dysfunction
What about fears that HAARP could have a negative impact on the mental health of people populating entire regions of the globe, or could even be used to mind control or brainwash whole populations? HAARP’s ionospherically generated ELF is at exactly the same frequency at which the human brain works. Could we be picking up some part of those signals?
In a seminal article on HAARP in Nexus Magazine,[11] Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning describe how HAARP could be used to induce mental dysfunction, quoting from presidential security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski[12] on a proposal from UCLA’s Dr. MacDonald, saying: “Political strategists are tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behavior. Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonald—specialist in problems of warfare—says [an] accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic stroke ‘…could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the Earth.… In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period…’”
There has been concern that HAARP and other “sky busters” could be covertly used to mess with our minds for decades. One of the first projects to raise such concerns was the so-called "Russian Woodpecker."
The bicentennial of the American Revolution was celebrated on July 4, 1976. The Soviets made some "fireworks" of their own by beginning a series of broadcasts that became known to ham radio operators around the world as the "Russian Woodpecker" in that same year. The official Defense Department explanation of the Woodpecker signal was that it was an over-the-horizon radar system designed to detect enemy missile launches. This is essentially what the Over The Horizon Backscatter (OTH-B) program, the original occupier of the HAARP site, was intended to be. These broadcast-interfering electromagnetic signals were on the three to thirty megahertz (MHz) bands, and were usually pulsed at an on-off rate of ten per second, which gave the signal the characteristic tapping that gave rise to its being called the "Russian Woodpecker."
In The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur wrote: "A report published in the New York Times on October 30, 1976, revealed that in recent months a mysterious broadband, short-wave radio signal had been broadcast intermittently from the Soviet Union. The signal was so powerful that it disrupted radio and telecommunications throughout the world.… Dr. Zaret is concerned about the Russian signal…because of its potential hazard to human beings…it was very clear that such an encoding impressed onto carrier wavelengths could have a central-nervous-system effect."[13]
In the early 1950s, the Soviets began directing a microwave beam at the United States embassy in Moscow. They spent the next four decades using our embassy workers as guinea pigs for their electromagnetic radiation (EMR) experiments. Washington, D.C. was oddly silent regarding the Moscow embassy bombardment when it was discovered in 1962. It was investigated by the CIA, who brought in an outside consultant, Dr. Milton Zaret, giving his investigation the code name "Project Pandora."[14] Zaret was startled to discover that the beam was focused precisely upon the ambassador's office. The intensity of the bombardment was not made public, but when the State Department finally admitted to the existence of the Moscow signal over a decade later, it was announced that it was "fairly low."
The Moscow signal finally became public knowledge in the mid-seventies. It then became the subject of heated debate in the media. In 1976, The Los Angeles Times reported that the United States ambassador to the USSR had informed his Moscow staff that the microwaves that the Soviets were beaming at the United States embassy in Moscow could cause emotional and behavioral problems, as well as leukemia, cancer, and cataracts. At least one of our ambassadors died as a result of exposure to the signal.
The Russian Woodpecker would appear to be an expansion of the Moscow signal, upping the ante from one building, the U. S. Embassy, to the whole United States. In the fall of 1976, after just a few months of operation, the Soviets completed the first of several expansions of their ELF Woodpecker grid. That expansion was accompanied by a major piece of curiosity, if not an outright criminal act. In 1977, the United States government sold the Soviets a supermagnet they knew was going to become part of the Woodpecker program. This magnet was a forty-ton monster capable of generating a magnetic field 250,000 times more powerful than that of the earth's magnetic field. Its purpose was to override, blank out, and/or interfere with the earth's natural magnetic field to permit the Soviet Woodpecker signals to penetrate to the United States. The United States not only knew what it was for, they sent a team of scientists to help the Russians install it! This supermagnet was installed at the Gomel site, powered by the Chernobyl reactor. Eleven years later, in 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor outside of Kiev, Ukraine exploded, ending these signals.
Following the 1977 upgrade, a series of mysterious sonic booms were heard off the eastern coast of the United States. Some researchers believe these were the result of the newly enhanced Woodpecker being calibrated. A United Press International (UPI) wire story of December, 22, 1977, reported that "a series of mysterious atmospheric explosions were reported along the New Jersey shore last night for the third time this month.… Police said the explosions were preceded by a series of rumblings. On December 2, there were two similar incidents, but the Federal Aviation Administration, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have been unable to offer any explanation for the blasts."
The following month, the Associated Press (AP) reported that a White House spokesman had informed the press that the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) would conduct a "measured and prudent" inquiry into the "mysterious atmospheric booms off the East Coast." The NRL never released its findings, but a little over a decade later it became a member of the HAARP project. Coincidence?
David Brinkley, on the TV show "NBC Magazine,"[15] spoke of the Woodpecker signal. He revealed to his audience that the northwestern United States had been continuously bombarded by the USSR with low-frequency waves set at the approximate level of biological frequencies. Brinkley said: "As I say I find it hard to believe, it is crazy and none of us here knows what to make of it: the Russian Government is known to be trying to change human behavior by external electronic influences. We do know that much. And we know that some kind of Russian transmitter is bombarding this country with extreme low frequency radio waves."
Hypnotists have long known that when a subject is given a post-hypnotic command to perform some act in the waking state, the subject will do it and rationalize the act as his or her own idea. In one such example, hypnotists put Robert Kennedy's convicted killer, Sirhan Sirhan, under, then told him to swing from the bars of his cell like a monkey when he was awakened. Sirhan carried out the instruction. When told he had been hypnotized and shown a video of himself acting like a monkey, he insisted that it had been entirely his own idea; he said he needed the exercise! Instructions, thoughts, or beliefs transmitted to a target subject could similarly be accepted by the subject as his or her own thoughts. This is the essence of research into mind control effected through the use of electromagnetic broadcasts.
In HAARP’s use of the ionosphere to rebroadcast in the ELF and/or microwave ranges, we can clearly see an area where there is a great potential for danger in the project. Could HAARP rebroadcasting in the ELF band via the aurora, as it was funded to do by the Senate to conduct earth-penetrating tomography studies, produce the same unhealthy effects ascribed to the Russian Woodpecker? Many people today are convinced that they are the target of ELF behavior modification operations. Some suspect HAARP is a part of these attacks on their minds.
Even if HAARP is not a CIA/DOD black project, if it really is just a scientific experiment, it is no less dangerous. Medical researchers have generated a literal mountain of documentation in the last two decades showing unmistakable health hazards associated with EMR exposure. How dare they ignore the health risks to the people (and other life forms) living above the underground targets they plan to irradiate? What about all those who will receive the fallout of this radiation meant to penetrate to submarines? Even if they are not deliberately trying to fry our brains, they might still succeed in turning our grey matter into three-minute meals.
Other Concerns
Nor is health, physical or mental, the only area of concern with HAARP rebroadcasting from the aurora. As noted in a HAARP fact sheet, "Since the sun's radiation creates and maintains the ionosphere, sudden variations in this radiation such as those caused by solar flares can affect the performance of radio systems. Sometimes the changes are sufficient to induce large transient currents in electric power transmission grids, causing widespread power outages."[16] HAARP is designed to duplicate solar phenomena. It is certainly not inconceivable that it too will cause similar power outages.
For some, a power outage is merely an inconvenience. For others, it can mean damaged electronic equipment, particularly computers; doctors forced to operate by flashlight; and, as in the infamous blackouts of New York City, it often means rape, burglary, and murder. Are you prepared to let some scientist tinkering with the aurora turn out your lights?
Another area for concern is this possibility of creating earthquakes. In the 1890s, Nicola Tesla demonstrated the potential for causing earthquakes through either creation of artificial standing waves or through inducing sympathetic resonance.[17] The United States Department of Energy successfully caused a massive earthquake in the Nevada desert by detonating a high-yield nuclear device that had been intentionally placed on a fault line in Project Faultless.[18] Additionally, United States scientists have discovered that earthquakes cause changes in the ionosphere and in the magnetosphere; and there is some reason for concern that the reverse, causing changes in the ionosphere and/or magnetosphere, could trigger earthquakes.[19]
Dr. Rosalie Bertell has written extensively about the use of nuclear weapons, in particular depleted uranium, and has written two books: No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth and Planet Earth, The Latest Weapon of War. The latter includes a lengthy section on HAARP. In it, Dr. Bertell noted several potential dangers from the HAARP signal, including mental disruption to both humans and migratory species as well as earthquakes and weather/climate change:
Ionospheric heaters such as HAARP create extremely low frequency (ELF) waves which are reflected back to the Earth by the ionosphere. These rays can be directed though the Earth in a method called deep earth tomography. Since the beamed radiation used to convert the direct electrical current of the electrojet into alternating current must be pulsed, it is reasonable to assume that the ELF radiation it generates will also be pulsed. Pulsed ELF waves can be used to convey mechanical effects, vibrations, at great distances through the Earth. By studying their “shadow”—that is, where the vibrations are interrupted—it is possible to understand and reconstruct the dimensions of underground structures.
The 10-Hertz ELF wave can easily pass through people, and there is concern that since it corresponds to brain wave frequency it can disrupt human thought…such waves may also have a profound effect on migration patterns of fish and wild animals as they rely on undisturbed energy fields to find their way. Moreover, the wider effects of deep-earth tomography are unknown. Certainly, it has the capability to cause disturbance of volcanoes and tectonic plates, which in turn have an effect on the weather. Earthquakes, for example, are known to interact with the ionosphere.
Deep Earth probes appear to be an integral part of the military’s aim to control and manipulate natural Earth processes. Whilst the potential of ELF waves to generate Earth movements, with associated freak weather, is frightening enough, it is also clear that the interaction between the earth and ionosphere that takes place during ELF generation and transmission may be capable of inducing more direct weather effects.[20]
What about birds flying through HAARP's intense RF beam? The HAARP site was nearly half wetlands, in a vast stretch of nearly flat, wet "bush." HAARP is located in the heart of a prime waterfowl migratory path! HAARP’s Final Environmental Impact Statement acknowledges this. It states that HAARP "lies within the Copper River Basin, which is one of Alaska's more important migration corridors." And yet it insists that "no significant impacts to birds would result from the construction of the HAARP facility." The most they did was to propose putting some colored streamers on the antenna masts to help reduce the number of birds flying into them!
Salmon, caribou, and other migratory species may be affected by HAARP as well. That is because altering the electrojet might cause alterations of the earth's magnetic field. This little-noted side effect of modulating the electrojet might have profound and unseen consequences for "spaceship" earth and its passengers. The magnetically sensitive material magnetite has been found in salmon and caribou brains. It has also been found in the human brain.
The Alaskan monthly, Bush Blade, carried comments by the late geomagnetic researcher Lloyd Zirbes, who strongly opposed HAARP. He wrote, "…disruption of the Earth's magnetic field will complete damages done by the nuclear bomb blasts in the natural radiation belts. Earth's magnetic field keeps the planet in balance. Projected results of the HAARP project may include disturbance of the circadian rhythms of human beings and increased exposure to radiation as the magnetic field is attenuated."[21]
Discovery Magazine discussed the possibility that disruption of the earth's internal dynamo and the alteration of the upper atmosphere's magnetic belts could "create a premature reversal of the magnetic poles, worsen the newly discovered wobble of the Earth, and possibly create a total polar reversal or Earth shift. During at least one [previous] reversal, magnetic north may have changed direction by as much as 4 to 8 degrees in a single day."[22]
In 1988, scientists at the U.S. Naval Observatory and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that the earth had developed a wobble in its spin. The cause of that wobble is still unknown. Some suspect that it was caused by the Russian Woodpecker signal. The 2004 Asian tsunami not only added a new wobble to the earth’s spin, it also changed the rate of spin, changing the length of a day by a fraction of a second. What effect, if any, HAARP may have on the magnetic pole or these wobbles is equally unknown. Do we want the DOD to get the answer the hard way?
During a reversal of the magnetic pole, the strength of the earth's magnet field would collapse, then rebuild in the opposite polarity. During the period of collapse and rebirth of the field, the earth would be without the protection of the magnetosphere. The only living things to survive would be deep in the earth or the sea. The flood of hard radiation from the sun and space would wipe out humanity, and virtually all species that live exposed to the sky. We know that changes in the earth's interior affect the magnetosphere. If the reverse is also the case, the magnetosphere affecting the interior, then ignorant or intentional misuse of HAARP has the potential to virtually wipe out life on earth.
HAARP Timeline
Dr. Bernard J. Eastlund received his patent for a “Method And Apparatus For Altering A Region In The Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, And/Or Magnetosphere” on August 11, 1987, while working for the Atlantic Richfield Co. subsidiary ARCO Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI).[23] It was but the first of a dozen related patents that scientists on APTI's payroll would take out over the next few years. These were for an antenna field forty miles on a side intended to create a shield in the upper atmosphere that no intercontinental ballistics missile (ICBM) could penetrate. This suite of patents was explicitly for a ground-based SDI system that would realize President Reagan’s dream. They would eventually form the intellectual property that the HAARP program is based on—or not, depending on who you listen to. Another reason for HAARP researchers to be concerned about HAARP having an effect on the weather is because an ability to modify the weather is laid out in those patents.
Officially, HAARP was conceived over two years later, on the morning of December 13, 1989, when a joint Navy-Air Force meeting was held at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Washington, D.C. It has since been described as a discussion of their mutual interest in carrying out a DOD program in the area of ionospheric modification. Military and HAARP documents insist that it was at this meeting that the need for a unique heating facility to conduct "critical experiments" relating to potential DOD applications was “identified.” Other meetings and a number of symposia soon followed.
The Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 1990 provided funds for the creation of HAARP, jointly managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research. Three contracts were awarded to ARCO Power Technologies (APTI, Eastlund’s boss) to begin feasibility studies in FY1991. In FY1992, the principal contract to begin construction was awarded, also to APTI.
In FY1992, the environmental impact process began, ending a year later with the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) being filed on October 18, 1993. The problem with these assessments is that they only addressed the effects on the ground of the energy coming directly from the towers and completely ignored what would happen in and to the ionosphere, much less what the re-radiated energy from the ionosphere would do. Several activists, including the group Trustees for Alaska,[24] have demanded a new FEIS.
In early November 1993, the United States Air Force announced, via press release, that the prime contractor on the HAARP program was APTI. Initial prototype construction began at the Gakona, Alaska, site in late 1993 and was completed a year later in late '94. During that time, ARCO divested itself of APTI selling the firm to a major defense contractor, E-Systems of Dallas, Texas.
In 1995, Raytheon bought E-Systems and all the APTI patents it held. Congress budgeted $10 million for HAARP for 1996 under "Counterproliferation—Advanced Development" spending. In the 1997 Descriptive Summary of the Counterproliferation Advanced Development Budget, HAARP appears under the sub-heading "Project P539 Counterforce." There it is recorded that "In FY96, Congress added $10 million to be used for the High-Frequency Acoustic [sic] Auroral Research Program (HAARP) to this project." Elsewhere in that report, it states "…in FY96 only, the Congressionally added HAARP program funds will be used to explore the ability of auroral transmissions to detect and locate underground structures of the type where WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] can be developed or stored."
After Raytheon acquired HAARP and the Eastlund patents, the program received full funding, but only after agreeing to make earth penetrating tomography (EPT) the project's top priority. Amazingly, now—more than a decade later—not a single word appears on the official HAARP website about what they have done on this. It would appear that they have done nothing! Are they thumbing their collective nose at the U.S. Senate, or have they been developing this technology and don't want to let the world know about it?
While the HAARP final ionospheric research instrument (FIRI) was planned to be a field of 180 antennas, a smaller set of elements was initially constructed so that the predicted performance could be verified before the entire facility was built. That initial phase of the program was called the Developmental Prototype (DP). By April of 1995, the DP array of 48 antenna towers arranged as eight columns by six rows had been completed and the first round of tests performed. And there the program sat, with no further progress, at least officially, for many years. The 960-kilowatt transmitter, however, was powerful enough to produce ionospherically generated ELF, which was used for communication with the submarine fleet.
Things went from bad to worse for the folks at HAARP after the turn of the century. They wanted to finish erecting the final ionospheric research instrument (FIRI) by 2002 but got their budget slashed instead. Adding insult to injury, in August of 2002, Russia's Interfax news agency reported that the Russian state Duma (their version of Congress or Parliament) expressed concern about HAARP, calling it a program to develop "a qualitatively new type of weapon.” A joint commission of the state Duma's International Affairs and Defense Committees issued a report that said: "Under the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) the USA is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves. The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapon differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component."
The report further claimed that the USA's plan to carry out large-scale scientific experiments under the HAARP program, and not controlled by the global community, would create weapons capable of jamming radio communications, disrupting equipment installed on spaceships and rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity networks and in oil and gas pipelines and have a negative impact on the mental health of people populating entire regions. An appeal, signed by ninety deputies, demanding that an international ban be put on such large-scale geophysical experiments was sent to President Vladimir Putin, the United Nations (UN) and other international organizations, the parliaments and leaders of the UN member countries, the scientific public, and mass media outlets.
The project got moving again when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Air Force and Navy to run HAARP for them in November, 2002.
What is DARPA? Per one of its old fact sheets: "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions."
Note that “high risk” element. Here we may be talking about several kinds of risk, including political and environmental. Back before the breakup of the Soviet Union, when HAARP began, many were concerned that the Star Wars weapons program would upset the global balance in that it might give the U.S. “first strike” capability and at the same time negate Russia’s ability to retaliate, thus destroying Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the foundation of Cold War détente—possibly leading to a preemptive Russian first strike and the outbreak of World War III. On the other hand, some researchers suggested that HAARP was capable of severe disruptions of natural systems, from weather out of control to a magnetic pole shift or reversal, to other bits of environmental mayhem too horrible to contemplate—up to and including destroying all life on earth! Talk about high risk!
There are eight technical offices in DARPA. HAARP was placed under the Tactical Technology Office (TTO). According to its fact sheet, "The Tactical Technology Office engages in high-risk, high-payoff advanced technology development of military systems, emphasizing the ‘system’ and ‘subsystem’ approach to the development of Unmanned Systems, Space Systems and Tactical Multipliers."[25]
Note that "tactical multipliers"—this may be a tip-off that HAARP was seen by DARPA as some sort of a force multiplier. “Tactical multiplier” is a military term referring to a factor that dramatically increases (hence "multiplies") the combat effectiveness of a military force. Some common force multipliers are: technology, morale, geographical features, training, strength of numbers, and the weather.
Ionospheric Enhancement, what HAARP is officially built to do, was a tactical multiplier mentioned in "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025,"[26] a study conducted by the Air University “to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future."[27] It states, “A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all together; in 2025 we can ‘Own the Weather.’"
Dr. Sheldon Z. Meth was the project manager of HAARP at DARPA. Not only was Dr. Meth in charge of HAARP; he also managed programs called Air Laser and MAgneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM)! Does it seem odd to you that a guy running a laser development program and designing some kind of bomb would also be tinkering with how the top of the atmosphere reacts to radio waves?
On April 23, 2007, System Planning Corporation (SPC) announced that Dr. Sheldon Z. Meth would join the company as chief technology officer.[28] A company press release described him as coming to SPC “… from duties as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he was responsible for the development of new generations of advanced strategic and tactical warfare and military space technologies to enhance U.S. defense capabilities against emerging national security challenges.” Prior to his DARPA experience, Dr. Meth held chief scientist positions at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for nearly fifteen years. SAIC (CIAs spelled backward) is one of the nation’s top ten defense contractors, with its primary clientele being the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and various alphabet agencies within the intelligence community, in particular the National Security Agency (NSA, “no such agency”). I think Dr. Meth’s connections to SAIC is significant, revealing a connection between HAARP and Intel.
The official DARPA web page for HAARP (now taken down) listed four things they’ve done with HAARP, but only used three numbered bullets:
(1) the generation of extremely low frequency/very low frequency radio waves for submarine and other subsurface communication, and the reduction of charged particle populations in the radiation belts to ensure safe spacecraft systems operations;
(2) the control of electron density gradients and the refractive properties in selected regions of the ionosphere to create radio wave propagation channels; and
(3) the generation of optical and infrared emissions in space to calibrate space sensors.
Dr. Meth does not have trouble counting—using the antenna field produces ELF and affects the radiation belts! Heating the ionosphere by several thousand degrees heats the molecules of the air to the point that they literally blow apart. Breaking the bonds of the molecule gives off a package of energy, including a "scream" of ELF. It also converts the air into plasma, the fourth state of matter. Plasma is electrically conductive, so it responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. HAARP converts a chunk of the atmosphere into plasma, which then goes out into space. It keeps going until it runs into something to stop it—the lines of force of the earth's magnetic field. There, the plasma is trapped between the lines of force, spreading out, possibly forming the shield that President Reagan asked for.
As you may know, the earth is surrounded by the Van Allen Radiation Belts, named after James Van Allen (September 7, 1914–August 9, 2006), who proved they were there by setting off atom bombs in them in 1958. These belts are areas where the earth’s magnetic field traps radiation.
Space shuttles, the International Space Station, and spy satellites all fly well below the Van Allen belts. But to get satellites up into geosynchronous orbit, much less to go to the moon, Mars, or elsewhere in the solar system or beyond, craft have to pass through the Van Allen belts. One of the arguments used by those who say we never went to the moon is that it was impossible to get there because the radiation would have killed or incapacitated any astronaut who made the trip. Van Allen dismissed these claims. He was also a strong supporter of HAARP, by the way.
If HAARP can reduce the hard radiation in these fields, it could be a very good thing for those trying to get into outer space. But there are substantial possible downsides to this. Weakening of the belts could harm electronics and organisms on earth. According to the Wikipedia article,[29] dissipating the belts might even influence the behavior of earth's magnetic poles!
Exactly how this reduction of the radiation in the belts is accomplished is not well described in the available literature. It seems to involve inducing the belts to precipitate out (rain radiation to earth) by injecting either radio waves or excess particles into them. So what happens when this hard radiation falls into the upper atmosphere? Could it create a cascade effect, with effects reaching all the way to the ground? What if the attempt to overburden the belt fails and instead of causing it to shed excess radiation, it just beefs it up?
DARPA’s including “the reduction of charged particle populations in the radiation belts to ensure safe spacecraft systems operations” in the same bullet with “the generation of extremely low frequency/very low frequency radio waves for submarine and other subsurface communication” is clear evidence that doing one also accomplishes the other—that is, the HAARP antenna array generates radio emissions that do both at the same time.
As repeatedly stated—and admitted to by everyone, although downplayed by the civilians at the University of Alaska—one of the prime purposes of the project was to communicate with deeply submerged submarines. This is certainly a valid military use for this technology, although finding a “dual use” civilian side might be a bit of a stretch. Every time HAARP talks with the sub fleet it also sends plumes of plasma out into space, throwing away a piece of our atmosphere!
Dr. Bernard Eastlund’s second APTI patent was for a "Method for producing a shell of relativistic particles at an altitude above the Earth's surface.”[30] This patent described a method for creating a "death zone" for anything electronic flying through this “shell of relativistic particles,” similar to the effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).
An EMP is a burst of radiation released immediately after a nuclear explosion. The EMP is essentially an electric field and a magnetic field moving away from the blast. The electromagnetic pulse burns out electronic circuitry, destroying communications systems, computers, and other sophisticated electronic instruments. The implications of the EMP are uncertain, but some experts assert that the EMP released by one large nuclear explosion over the central United States could cause an electrical blackout affecting the entire country. Further, it is possible that the EMP would damage the circuitry in missiles so that they would be unable to reach their targets. The EMP was first detected during a nuclear test at Johnston Island in 1962.[31]
Early HAARP documents discussed how the facility could be used to create artificial EMPs. After Eastlund went public, all such mentions disappeared from official sources. Many researchers are convinced that HAARP can cause EMP-like effects in the upper atmosphere. HAARP transmissions excite beta particles or electrons in the magnetosphere making them move very fast, nearly to speed of light—Eastlund called these relativistic particles. HAARP may be ready, right this minute, to bring down enemy missiles or spy satellites–or friendly ones! Some researchers are convinced that the space shuttle Columbia was brought down by HAARP![32]
On February 17, 2003, a press release went out announcing that BAE Systems North America had reached a definitive agreement with Advanced Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI) to purchase the corporation for $27 million in cash (note that somewhere along the line, the “A” in APTI changed from “ARCO” to “Advanced”). One year and two months after purchasing APTI, BAE Systems announced that it had received a contract from the Navy for $35 million to complete the HAARP FIRI. After purchasing APTI, BAE Systems became the owners of the intellectual property, the patents that make HAARP possible.
The contract was awarded to BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS) division. Just the sound of “Information & Electronic Warfare” should have been ringing alarm bells. Perhaps it did, as that division has since changed its name to the “kinder and gentler” sounding Electronics and Integrated Solutions Operating Group[33], which is defined by the company as “a major defense electronics component of BAE Systems, Inc.,” a U.S. corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems PLC, a multinational corporation headquartered in the United Kingdom. BAE Systems PLC is the result of over one hundred years of mergers and acquisitions, with the former British Aerospace at its core.
BAE Systems lost no time in farming out the HAARP contract. Five days after getting the job from the Navy, it subcontracted the transmitter portion of the project to DRS Technologies[34], and twelve days later, the subcontractor who would put up the remaining antennas, Phazar Corporation,[35] sent out its own press release. DARPA announced the completion of this phase of HAARP’s history via its website on March 9, 2006. BAE Systems held a grand ribbon cutting ceremony the following year, in June of 2007.
HAARP is today a multi-million-dollar “upper atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics” observatory—that may or may not also be a whole lot more. Remember, it is the High-frequency ACTIVE Auroral Research Program. Very little is passive about HAARP; it is designed to do things, to modify the atmosphere. Like the report, “Applications and Research Opportunities Using HAARP,” said, HAARP is about making “the transition from pure research to applications in the civilian and military arenas.” I think we should be told what those applications will be. Even if HAARP is exactly what it says it is, is that something good?
From an environmental point of view, there is no end to the potential horrors of HAARP and similar technologies. Oddly enough, my greatest fear now is that HAARP might be exactly what it says it is—an experimental base from which clueless civilian scientists are manipulated into performing questionable experiments on vast planetary systems with unknown potential outcomes—even if it doesn’t say that in quite those words.
HAARP's primary avowed purpose, stated most simply, is to find out if the ionosphere can be "tweaked" so as to advance military objectives. Common sense tells us that "weaponizing the atmosphere" could be a serious mistake—even if it works. If we achieve this technology, how long will it be before our enemies gain it, too? What happens when we and they go head to head in a war using geophysical weapons? Nukes are nice in comparison to the hell that could be unleashed.
Unfortunately, there is little the average citizen can do about HAARP directly. Activists have had little impact on the project despite nearly two decades of activism. The solution, broadly, has to be in educating the public and our leaders about HAARP and this technology, and in using politics to force our leaders to alter the way we fund and conduct science.
Jerry E. Smith is a freelance writer and lecturer currently working for Adventures Unlimited Press. His latest book is Weather Warfare:The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature?—a follow up to HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon. He also co-authored Secrets of the Holy Lance with George Piccard. Visit his website at www.jerryesmith.com.
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[1]Notes
Executive Summary of the report entitled “Applications and Research Opportunities Using HAARP” issued by a scientific committee sponsored by the Air Force’s Phillips Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research (and released by the Technical Information Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, in 1995).
[2] Abe Streep, “The Military's Mystery Machine: The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, has been called a missile-defense tool and a mind-control device. The truth is a bit less ominous” Popular Science Magazine (June 18, 2008).
[3] Dennis Papdopoulos and Committee, “HAARP Research and Applications,” USAF Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, Joint Program Report, November 5, 1998. HAARPResearchAndApplications.pdf describes and documents the scientific uses and applications created by the HF Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). Covers the need for its existence, the range it can cover, its capabilities, and a manifest of acquisitions.
[4] Ross N. Hoffman, “Controlling Hurricanes: Can Hurricanes and Other Severe Tropical Storms Be Moderated or Deflected?” Scientific American (October 2004).
[5] Michel Chossudovsky, “It's Not Only Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Washington's New World Order Weapons Have The Ability To Trigger Climate Change,” citing European Parliament, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Policy, Brussels, doc. no. A4-0005/99 (January 14, 1999).
[6] “US HAARP Weapon Development Concerns Russian Duma,” Interfax News Agency, Moscow (August 8, 2002).
[7] “Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law,” No. 10, Vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949) 181-182, http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html.
[8] http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/.
[9] Dr. Dennis Papadopoulos was identified as a chief scientist on the HAARP project by the 1996 BBC/A&E television program, “Masters of the Ionosphere.” On it, he spoke enthusiastically of the first test of earth penetrating tomography capability. He was talking about HIPAS, but the show made it seem like he was talking about HAARP. He said: "There was an experiment in which there was a particular old mine which was about 30 meters underground and we were trying to see whether we could really image it…" using ionospherically generated ELF. According to Dr. Papadopoulos, "This was really the first test of the concept in the world and we were, I was actually amazed because usually a first experiment always fails. This experiment succeeded beyond our imagination. It is a fantastic remote sensing tool. I can do remote sensing of the ionosphere, of the ground, of the underground, of the seas. I can measure the temperature of the water. I think, you know, dreams that I have dreamt for the last, you know, twenty-five years are becoming reality and the first one happened two weeks ago. That was really a sweet moment" (see http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/543659).
[10] A Program Research & Development Announcement (PRDA) with the title “Detection and Imaging of Underground Structures Using ELF/VLF Radio Waves” issued by the Space Effects Division of the Phillips Laboratory Geophysics Directorate, which asked for research proposals related to the “theoretical understanding and practical development and demonstration of techniques for the detection of underground structures using ELF/VLF radio waves generated by natural and man-made sources.”
[11] Nick Begich, “HAARP: Vandalism in the Sky?” Nexus Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1 (December 1995-January 1996).
[12] Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, 1st ed., (New York: Penguin 1st edition [May 27, 1971]).
[13] Paul Brodeur, The Zapping of America, (Norton, 1977).
[14] http://www.geocities.com/adrian9999999999/pandora.htm.
[15] Broadcast July 18, 1981.
[16] www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/factSheet.html
[17] Dale Pond and Walter Baumgartner, Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine: With Tesla's Original Patents Plus New Blueprints to Build Your Own Working Model (Message, 1995).
[18] http://www.yuccamountain.org/faultless.html
[19] Jerry E. Smith, "Invisible Warfare: Geophysical Weapons of the Secret Government," Paranoia: The Conspiracy and Paranormal Reader, Issue 45 (Fall 2007) http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/
[20]Rosalie Bertell, Planet Earth, The Latest Weapon of War (United Kingdom: Quartet, 2002).
[21] Cook Inlet Monthly Bush Blade (February, 1994).
[22] May 1992.
[23] U.S. Patent Number 4,686,605.
[24] http://www.trustees.org/.
[25] http://www.darpa.mil/tto/.
[26] http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/v3c15/v3c15-1.htm.
[27] http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/index.htm.
[28] “System Planning Corporation Names Dr. Sheldon Meth Chief Technology Officer,” PR Newswire, April 23, 2007, http://www.sys-con.com/node/365605.
[29] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt.
[30] U.S. Patent 5038664: Method For Producing A Shell Of Relativistic Particles At An Altitude Above The Earth's Surface; Inventors: Eastlund; Bernard J., Spring, TX; Assignees: APTI, Inc., Washington, DC; Issued: August 13, 1991; Filed: January 10, 1985.
[31] Eric Semler, James Benjamin, and Adam Gross, The Language of Nuclear War: An Intelligent Citizen's Dictionary, (New York: Harper & Row, 1987).
[32] http://www.columbiassacrifice.com/.
[33] http://www.baesystems.com/Businesses/EIS/.
[34] “DRS Technologies Receives $23.3 Million Contract to Provide High-Frequency Radio Transmitters,” Business Wire, June 15, 2004, http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/contracts-bids-public/5617465-1.html.
[35] “Antenna Products Corporation Awarded Contract,” February 07, 2005, http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050207005636&newsLang=en.
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