Neff Zone Column

Print Edition: October 8, 2005

NOTHING LIKE A GOOD CONSPIRACY THEORY

Don’t you love a good conspiracy theory? Well, I have a doozy for you. Buckle your chin straps boys and girls because here we go. Hurricane Katrina was no accident, the current hot theory goes. It may not have been created by man, but it was most definitely intensified and steered to New Orleans by man. The perpetrators were the Russians -- maybe the government, maybe the Russian mafia, maybe both working together.

"Hogwash," you say. Well, upon viewing the devastation President Bush said: "It’s as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by the worst kind of weapon you can imagine." Coincidence or slip of the tongue?

Conventional science would tell you that nothing in current physics can explain Katrina. But what if the manipulation of hurricanes is based on a branch of physics outside the current norm? Conspiracy theory buffs point to the concepts of genius Nikola Tesla who took the secrets of a death ray, a weapon to destroy airplanes at hundreds of miles range, and a protective electronic shield nothing could penetrate to his grave in 1943. The physics behind these concepts were so brilliant we still can’t figure them out.

They now claim another concept promoted by Tesla and others called Scalar Interferometry can create a force field that would allow storms like hurricanes to be strengthened and actually driven to specific locations. This is all too complicated for me, but it’s described in detail at www.weatherwars.info, a website created by Scott Stevens, a meteorologist who is now working full time to prove the conspiracy exists. Stevens postulates that not only can storms be manipulated, but the Russians have figured out the physics and are using that knowledge for their own nefarious ends.

"OK, so one wacko weatherman has a nutcase idea, big deal," you say. Then what do you make of these statements?

""Some countries...are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important."

- Secretary of Defense William Cohen speaking at an April 1997 terrorism conference.

"Weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary... In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels." - Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report

If the physics does not exist and weather (i.e. storms) cannot be manipulated, what are these people talking about?

"So," you ask, "even if the concept exists what’s in it for the Russians to destroy New Orleans?" Aha! It all centers around oil. Katrina hit the Big Easy and its "refinery row" in late September. On October 2 Russia’s massive Sakhalin-1 oil and gas field started pumping for the first time. Eventually the project will produce 250,000 barrels per day and net the Russians $40 billion over the decade. What better way to insure the success of the project than to make sure the price of oil hits an all-time high.

And it gets better. Sakhalin-1 is also the largest single foreign investment project in Russian history. Guess who provided the lion’s share of the foreign money and owns the larges drilling rig in the field – our Texas buddies at Exxon.

"Now you’re just getting silly," you say. "This whole weather manipulation idea has just gone too far. Only an idiot would believe it."

Fine, then explain Senate Bill 517 introduced in March by Republican Senator Kay Hutchinson, coincidentally also from Texas, that will be voted into law this month. It’s called, "A bill to establish a Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes." Hmmm, what "other purposes?"

The goal of the act is "to develop and implement a comprehensive national weather modification policy" that would include "changing or controlling…by artificial methods the natural development of atmospheric cloud forms." The bill funds this board to the tune of $10 million per year through 2014.

"Just an innocent bill to promote scientific study," you say. Then why is proposed board under the domain of the Secretary of Commerce? Could it be that in actuality the real goal of weather manipulation is to produce results in the business sector or do battle with other governments on a global biz-war scenario?

Fun stuff, eh? Crazy enough to be crazy, but not too crazy to stop you from scratching your head and wondering if it all makes some weird kind of sense. Want to have even more fun? Go to the Google search engine on the internet and type in "woodpecker grid." Try not to scream – "Yikes!"

Jim Neff is a local columnist. Comments to neffzone@gmail.com . Read Neff Zone columns online at www.neffzone.com/cadillacnews .