GEORGE FRIEDMAN: A US attack on North Korea is imminent

The US is preparing to attack North Korea, according to Geopolitical Futures founder George Friedman — setting the stage for a difficult, messy war with potentially catastrophic consequences.

Speaking Monday to a rapt audience at the 2017 Strategic Investment Conference in Orlando, Friedman said that while it was unlikely the US would take action before President Donald Trump returns home at the weekend, North Korea's actions appeared to have "offered the US no alternative" to a clash.

According to Geopolitical Futures analysis, evidence is mounting that the enmity between the two is escalating to a point where war is inevitable.

Friedman said that on May 20, the USS Carl Vinson supercarrier and USS Ronald Reagan were both within striking distance of North Korea.

Additionally, more than 100 F-16 aircraft are conducting daily exercises in the area, a tactic that foreshadowed the beginning of Desert Storm in 1991.

F-35 aircraft have also been deployed to the area, and US government representatives are expected to brief Guam on civil defense, terrorism, and Korea on May 31.

All of these strategic moves telegraph one outcome — conflict.

Friedman's decision to make public his focus on North Korea comes days after the secretive state's latest ballistic missile launch. The UN Security Council condemned its "highly destabilizing behavior and flagrant and provocative defiance" of the organization.

Seoul in the crosshairs

Problems with any conflict are myriad. The 25 million people of the Seoul metropolitan area lie in reach of what Friedman called a "stunning mass of [North Korean] artillery." Any strike on North Korea would likely result in a retributive attack on Seoul.

"We cannot afford the kind of casualties this will create," Friedman said, adding that the US needed to neutralize the artillery by strategic bombardment.

A second problem for the US is that any conflict would necessarily rely on imperfect intelligence, and the effect of incorrect information could take a devastating human toll.

Friedman also called attention to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, saying that a North Korean attack on the base would be Kim Jong Un's only chance at delaying the war.

Pointedly branding the North Korean elites "neither crazy nor stupid," Friedman said they had "homicidal, but not suicidal tendencies."

"We are facing a war that is not simple," he said, adding that Russia and China were both washing their hands of the matter.

An undeclared war?

In off-the-cuff remarks following his speech at the SIC 2017, Friedman said a conflict would mark the beginning of another undeclared war.

"We have not declared war on a country since World War II, a terrible mistake morally and constitutionally, but also practically," he said. "Getting Congress to declare war binds both sides together and puts responsibility on all."

Nonetheless, he said, North Korea is America's problem to bear.

"This is how it's going to be for America over the next decade, because we are the major global power and that power is of the sort that doesn't disappear very quickly," he said. "We are the only country in the world with a global military capability.

"There is no other power that can conceivably — and I include the Chinese in this — take effective military action against the North Koreans to stop a nuclear program," he continued. "That means it's either the US [takes action] or North Korea has a nuclear weapon."

Systemic war will come to the 21st century

Rumors of the demise of America's hegemonic status are greatly exaggerated, according to Friedman. A consequence of its unparalleled power is that it will continue to "be involved in all sorts of miserable wars every five to 10 years. It's partly because no one else wants to do it and partly because we can afford to and partly because of long-term threats."

As for the remainder of the 21st century, Friedman was pragmatic.

"Every century has its systemic wars," he said. "The odds that the 21st century will be the first not to have it are slim to none."

For the foreseeable future, it seems, the US's reluctant sheriff's hat will remain in place.

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What's in the Senate health care bill? Here are five key provisions

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Shortly before Senate Republicans released their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, we asked several health policy analysts for the aspects of the bill that they would be paying close attention to. They came up with five key issues to watch.

Now that the bill is officially out, we know how the Senate bill addressed those five issues, with reaction from some of our experts.

Here’s a rundown.

How, and how quickly, will the bill shrink Medicaid enrollment?

As it turns out, one of the bill’s biggest impacts will be on Medicaid, both for people who qualified for Medicaid coverage prior to the Affordable Care Act and for those who secured coverage due to the program’s expansion under President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

Medicaid enrollment will fall a little less quickly than it would under the House bill, but new restraints on the program will be severe.

"The bill ramps down funding for Medicaid expansion over a three-year period from 2021 to 2023," said Christine Eibner, a senior economist with Rand Corp. "It also converts federal funding for the Medicaid program to a per capita allotment or, if states prefer, a block grant. All of these provisions have the effect of reducing federal funding for the Medicaid program, which likely means that states will reduce eligibility."

Then, after 2024, federal funding for Medicaid under the Senate proposal will grow more slowly than it would under the House bill, due to a change in the inflation measures used to calculate funding allotments. "This could lead to steeper reductions in enrollment over the long run," Eibner said, although these effects might not show up in the 10-year window that the Congressional Budget Office uses as its primary measurement.  

In the meantime, under the Senate bill, some of the currently mandated benefits under Medicaid would be made optional.

What will happen to existing consumer regulations governing private health insurance?

The Senate bill maintains many of the Affordable Care Act’s market regulations for private insurance, including the requirement that insurers offer coverage to all customers, and the requirement that insurers charge the same premiums regardless of health status. The bill also retains the essential health benefits requirements, which stipulate that plans must offer coverage for 10 commonly-used services, such as hospitalization, prescription drugs, maternity care, and mental health treatment.

However, the bill opens the door to a weakening of some of these provisions. States can opt out of some of the requirements if they apply to the federal government for a waiver -- and "there will be intense pressure for state regulators" to do so, said Linda Blumberg, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute.

If states seek waivers in large numbers and the federal government grants them, it would "effectively leave people with preexisting conditions without access to the services they need," said Timothy Jost, an emeritus law professor at Washington & Lee University.

Another area that could change are standards for out-of-pocket maximums -- that is, caps on how much a patient is responsible for on an annual or a lifetime basis. These caps were banned by the Affordable Care Act because people with particularly expensive conditions could be forced into bankruptcy by their medical costs.

The Senate bill raises the ratio for premiums that insurers can charge older and younger customers. Currently, older customers can get charged three times what younger customers pay. The bill would increase this ratio to five-to-one.

However, insurers’ options for covering their costs will be limited in other ways. The Senate bill eliminates the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, bars denial of coverage, and prevents insurers from charging people with health problems more than healthy people of the same age.

So, to make sure their pools of customers aren’t over-filled with patients at a higher risk of getting sick, insurers "will look to protect themselves by selling coverage with much more limited benefits and much higher cost sharing," Blumberg said. "This hurts the non-wealthy the most, as well as people when they have a health problem and as they get older."

James Winkler, a retired physician, waves a placard during a protest in Denver on June 23, 2017, targeting the Republican health bill. More than 100 protesters crowded the sidewalk outside the building in which Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., has his office. (AP/David Zalubowski) 

What, if any, subsidies will be offered for the purchase of private coverage?

Currently, people who have purchased insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces can get two forms of subsidies. One form, called premium tax credits, reduces a customer’s monthly payments for coverage. The other, known as a cost-sharing subsidy, keeps down patients out-of-pocket costs for doctor or hospital services.

The Senate bill would eliminate cost-sharing subsidies entirely. It does keep tax credits, but the maximum income to qualify for tax credits is reset for 350 percent of the federal poverty level -- about $42,000 for a single individual -- which is lower than the 400 percent under current law.

Equally important, through complicated adjustments to the formula, the Senate bill would reduce how much of a punch the the tax credits pack for enrollees. In essence, the tax credits under the Senate bill would be pegged to the cost of a less generous insurance plan than under current law.

Stan Dorn, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, said one of the areas in which the changes will be most clearly felt are in deductibles. For many people who buy insurance on the marketplaces, their out-of-pocket costs will go up, even if their premiums go down.

"A lot of the complaints about Obamacare have been that the deductibles are too high, but this bill will make it a lot worse," Dorn said. On balance, younger people may benefit from the tax credit changes made by the Senate bill, but older people will be worse off, he said.

The result of all these changes, Dorn said, could be that "a lot of people will drop their coverage."

What will be done to address the costs of mental health and substance use?

On the upside, the bill includes $2 billion to combat the opioid crisis, to be spent between 2017 and 2019. The downside? Experts expect that amount to be a drop in the bucket compared with the cumulative reductions for substance abuse and mental health prompted by the Senate bill.

The Senate bill allows states to waive the essential health benefits requirement -- a list that includes mental health and substance abuse treatment. Any cutbacks to Medicaid in particular could hit mental health and substance abuse treatment hard. "Medicaid is one of the key supports for substance abuse disorders," Dorn said.

How fast will taxes imposed by the Affordable Care Act be eliminated?

The Senate bill eliminates most of the taxes in the Affordable Care Act. (The major exception is the "Cadillac tax" on high cost health plans, which the Senate bill retains but delays until 2026.)

Here’s a rundown of some of the higher-profile taxes in the Affordable Care Act and how they would fare under the Senate bill.

• Tanning-bed tax: Repealed on Sept. 30, 2017.

• The ACA’s curb on deducting insurance-executive pay in excess of $500,000: Repealed in 2017.

• Medicare unearned-income tax: Repealed in 2017.

• Health insurance provider fee: Already suspended for 2017; would be repealed thereafter.

• Tax on branded prescription drugs: Repealed in 2018.

• Medical device tax: Repealed in 2018.

• A 0.9 percent Medicare payroll tax surcharge for individuals earning more than $200,000 a year or $250,000 for joint returns: Repealed effective 2023.

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Viewers Wish for Trump's Assassination After 'Scandal' Winter Premiere

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After a long delay, ABC's Scandal returned for its sixth season premiere on Thursday night, fast-forwarding to election night after ending season five in the middle of a presidential campaign between "Republican" First Lady Mellie Grant(Bellamy Young) and Democrat Francisco "Frankie" Vargas (Ricardo Chavira).

To accommodate lead actress Kerry Washington’s pregnancy, the premiere moved from its usual fall date to a January 2017 start even though it was filmed in July 2016. In fact, the premiere was bumped back another weekwhen ABC decided it wanted to air a special on President-elect Trump the night before his inauguration instead. Considering the content of the premiere, this was a wise move.

The episode “Survival of the Fittest,” begins with Mellie narrowly losing to Frankie, breaking liberal feminist heartsall over again with the sight of another woman conceding an election, but the drama really kicks up when President-elect Vargas is assassinated while giving his acceptance speech. Immediately after it was announced that Vargas had been killed, there was an explosion of tweets from the nastier parts of Twitter wishing it had been Trump.

Showrunner Shonda Rhimes as well as the other actors went on record to insist that the real life election had nothing to do with the episode, but it's still worth noting that many key figures from Shondaland publicly supported Hillary Clinton in the election and went so far as to film an ad for her campaign. And of course there was the despicable Trump-like character from last season. The show can’t seem to escape even subtle references, whether it be Mellie’s logo resembling Hillary’s or the prophetic comment on a woman losing the election.

With Scandal's long history of supporting leftist causes, it's no wonder so many of its fans are members of the deranged left who wish our president dead.

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*HAARP was suspected in the 2010' earthquake that devastated Haiti.

"It isn't just conspiracy theorists who are concerned about HAARP. The European Union called the project a global concern and passed a resolution calling for more information on its health and environmental risks. Despite those concerns, officials at HAARP insist the project is nothing more sinister than a radio science research facility."
  -- From documentary on HAARP project's weather control by Canada's CBC

HAARP: What is it?

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a little-known, yet critically important U.S. military defense project which has generated quite a bit of controversy over its alleged weather control capabilities and much more.

Though denied by HAARP project officials, some respected researchers allege that secret electromagnetic warfare capabilities of the project are designed to forward the US military's stated goal of achieving full-spectrum dominance by the year 2020.

Others go so far as to claim that HAARP can and has been used for weather control, to cause earthquakes and tsunamis, to disrupt global communications systems, and more. They point to major aspects of the program which are kept secret for alleged reasons of "national security." The U.S. patent of a key developer of HAARP and other documentary evidence support these claims. And there is no doubt that electromagnetic weapons capable of being used in warfare do exist. The project's $300 million price tag also suggests more is going on than meets the eye.

According to the official HAARP website, "HAARP is a scientific endeavor aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes." The ionosphere is the delicate upper layer of our atmosphere which ranges from about 30 miles (50 km) to 600 miles (1,000 km) above the Earth's surface.

The HAARP project website acknowledges that experiments are conducted which use electromagnetic frequencies to fire pulsed, directed energy beams in order to "temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere." Some scientists state that purposefully disturbing this sensitive layer could have major and even disastrous consequences. Concerned HAARP researchers like Dr. Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa and Alaska's Dr. Nick Begich(son of a US Congressman) present evidence suggesting that these disturbances can even be used to trigger earthquakes, affect hurricanes, and for weather control.

This essay is dedicated with compassion to those who suffered and died in the massive earthquakes in Japan and Haiti, and in the Indonesian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

Who Created HAARP?

Dr. Bernard Eastlund is the scientist whose name is most associated with the creation and development of the HAARP project. His revealing website provides reliable information on his involvement with the project. A 1987 patent issued to Dr. Eastlund is titled "Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere." In this patent, which sets the stage for HAARP, Dr. Eastlund makes a number of fascinating statements which clearly contradict the claim that it is only being used for research and not for military purposes or such purposes as weather control. Here are a few of key statements taken verbatim from the patent:

• [The] temperature of the ionosphere has been raised by hundreds of degrees in these experiments.
• A means and method is provided to cause interference with or even total disruption of communications over a very large portion of the earth. This invention could be employed to disrupt not only land based communications, both civilian and military, but also airborne communications and sea communications. This would have significant military implications.
• It is possible ... to take advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world's communications are disrupted.
• [It] can be used to an advantage for positive communication and eavesdropping purposes.
• Exceedingly large amounts of power can be very efficiently produced and transmitted.
• This invention has a phenomenal variety of ... potential future developments. Large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction or deflection. Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns or altering solar absorption patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device. Ozone, nitrogen, etc. concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased.
• Electromagnetic pulse defenses are also possible. The earth's magnetic field could be decreased or disrupted at appropriate altitudes to modify or eliminate the magnetic field.

For those with any background in science, you might find it quite revealing to explore this patent in more detail. And remember that since the time of this patent, in which Alaska is mentioned several times as the ideal location, the government fully acknowledges that it has built a massive array of antennas in Alaska with the capability of disturbing the ionosphere exactly as described in Eastlund's patent.

HAARP Documentaries

Two key major media documentaries, one by Canada's public broadcasting network CBC and the other by the History Channel, reveal the inner workings of the HAARP project in a most powerful way. The very well researched CBC documentary includes this key quote:

"It isn't just conspiracy theorists who are concerned about HAARP. In January of 1999, the European Union called the project a global concern and passed a resolution calling for more information on its health and environmental risks. Despite those concerns, officials at HAARP insist the project is nothing more sinister than a radio science research facility."

The European Union (EU) document which brings HAARP and similar electromagnetic weaponsinto question can be verified here. The actual wording at bullet point 24 in this telling document states that the EU "considers HAARP by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing." This revealing document further states that the EU regrets the repeated refusal of the U.S. government to give evidence on the project.

This engaging 15-minute CBC documentary is available for free viewing. An even more detailed and revealing 45-minute History Channel documentary on HAARP and other secret weapons used for electromagnetic warfare is available here. Here are two quotes from the History Channel documentary:

"Electromagnetic weapons ... pack an invisible wallop hundreds of times more powerful than the electrical current in a lightning bolt. One can blast enemy missiles out of the sky, another could be used to blind soldiers on the battlefield, still another to control an unruly crowd by burning the surface of their skin. If detonated over a large city, an electromagnetic weapon could destroy all electronics in seconds. They all use directed energy to create a powerful electromagnetic pulse."

"Directed energy is such a powerful technology it could be used to heat the ionosphere to turn weather into a weapon of war. Imagine using a flood to destroy a city or tornadoes to decimate an approaching army in the desert. If an electromagnetic pulse went off over a city, basically all the electronic things in your home would wink and go out, and they would be permanently destroyed. The military has spent a huge amount of time on weather modification as a concept for battle environments."

Another video along similar lines, the excellent History Channel documentary titled "The Invisible Machine: Electromagnetic Warfare," is available here. For those who still doubt that such devastating secret weapons have been developed, here is an intriguing quote from an article in New Zealand's leading newspaper, the New Zealand Herald:

"Top-secret wartime experiments [WWII] were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal. United States defence chiefs said that if the project had been completed before the end of the war, it could have played a role as effective as that of the atom bomb. Details of the tsunami bomb, known as Project Seal, are contained in 53-year-old documents released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade."

If the military secretly developed a weapon which could cause a tsunami over half a century ago, what kind of advanced deadly weapons might be available now? And why is it that the general public still doesn't know about secret weapons developed over 50 years ago? Clearly the military has the capability to cause a tsunami and likely to cause earthquakes and hurricanes, as well. To understand why the media isn't covering these highly critical issues, see this revealing essay. It's time to take action to spread the word on this vital topic. And for another excellent documentary on HAARP, which includes an extensive interview with Dr. Bernard Eastlund, watch "Holes in Heaven."

Secrecy Around the Project

Having interpreted for top generals in my work as a language interpreter with the US Department of State, I learned that military planners are always interested in developing the most devastating weapons possible. Yet these weapons are kept secret as long as possible, allegedly for reasons of national security. The many layers of intense secrecy both in the military and government result in very few people being aware of the gruesome capabilities for death and destruction

The massive Manhattan Project (development of the first atomic bomb) is one such example. The building of an entire city to support the project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was successfully kept secret even from the state's governor. The stealth bomber was kept top secret for many years, and the public still has no way of knowing it's full capabilities. It is through the use of the highly organized military and intelligence services that the power elite of our world, in cooperation with key allies in government and corporate ownership of the media, are able to carry out major cover-ups and secret operations like those involved with HAARP.

Some researchers have raised questions about the possible involvement of HAARP in major disasters like the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, the Indonesian tsunami, and hurricane Katrina. Could these have been HAARP experiments gone awry? Might they even have been caused by rogue elements which gained control of this devastating technology? Disasters like this happen naturally on a regular basis, yet if you begin to research, there is some high strangeness around some of these disasters. The evidence is inconclusive, yet with the known and unknown major destructive capabilities of this weapon, serious questions remain.

HAARP and Manipulation of Emotions

The capability of influencing and even controlling human emotions has been studied by the military and intelligence services of the world for many decades. A concise, information-packed description of such programs with links to declassified CIA documents for verification is available here. One thoroughly researched book titled Mind Controllers describes an effective method of remotely influencing human emotions. Here's a key quote from this revealing book:

"With the use of powerful computers, segments of human emotions which include anger, anxiety, sadness, fear, embarrassment, jealousy, resentment, shame, and terror, have been identified and isolated within the EEG signals as 'emotion signature clusters.' Their relevant frequencies and amplitudes have been measured. Then the very frequency/amplitude cluster is synthesized and stored on another computer. Each one of these negative emotions is properly and separately tagged. They are then placed on the Silent Sound carrier frequencies and could silently trigger the occurrence of the same basic emotion in another human being."

An excellent 10-page summary of the book is available here. For the section focused on nonlethal weapons, which includes the above quote, see this page. Using HAARP's powerful broadcast capabilities, it is within the realm of possibility that powerful antennas like that of HAARP and major facilities elsewhere could triangulate on an exact location anywhere in the world and send highly intensified frequencies matching the emotion signature of a desired emotion to produce anger or any other desired emotion in a group of people, as the human mind naturally entrains to strong frequencies around it.

This may all sound quite unbelievable to those who are not versed in the secret ways of of the military-intelligence complex. Yet there is strong evidence to support this possibility. Here is the abstract of U.S. patent number 5,159,703, approved in 1992, over twenty years ago:

"A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high audio frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplitude or frequency modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones or piezoelectric transducers. The modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the listener."

You can view the entire patent on the U.S. Patent and Trade Office website at this link. Below are the listed objects of the invention in that patent:

1. to provide a technique for producing a subliminal presentation which is inaudible to the listener(s), yet is perceived and demodulated (decoded) by the ear for use by the subconscious mind.
2. to provide a technique for transmitting inaudible subliminal information to the listener(s) at a constant, high level of signal strength and on a clear band of frequencies.
3. to provide a technique for producing inaudible subliminal presentations to which music or other "foreground" programming may be added, if desired.

In other words, the subliminal messages could be inserted into TV and radio waves without the awareness of the listener or viewer. Such messages could easily be beamed from satellites, as well, triangulated on a desired location. Using the incredible broadcasting capabilities of HAARP, these subliminal message could conceivably even be broadcast over a larger area to create the desired effect on an entire population. Sounds scary doesn't it? So why is this not being discussed more widely?

An informative paper on the usage of the silent sound technology and it's implications is available here. At least a dozen other patents have been approved related to the usage of technology designed to cause subliminal changes in desired targets. A list and brief descriptions of many of these patents with links for verification is available on this webpage. Here's a sample quote from Patent #6,506,148:

"It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set. For the latter, the image pulsing may be imbedded in the program material, or it may be overlaid by modulating a video stream."

Clearly, technologies have been developed and refined with the specific purpose of passing subliminal messages unbeknownst to the target. The capability of remotely influencing emotions through the use of certain wave lengths has been successfully demonstrated. The implications are huge. Yet there is exceedingly little regulation of how this technology will be used. By educating yourself on this important matter and spreading the word to your friends and colleagues, you can make a difference in building the necessary momentum to bring these matters to light and to ensure they are not used in disempowering ways.

Jesse Ventura, the former Navy Seal who turned pro wrestler only to then become governor of Minnesota, has a TV special on HAARP that is a bit sensationalized, yet contains useful information. You can watch this revealing program online at this link. For many other ideas and suggestions on how you can further educate yourself and what you can do to help inform others about this secret program and make a difference in our world, see the box below. And to bring this matter home, let us also look at where each of us are keeping secrets in ways that can end up harming those around us. Thanks for caring.

With very best wishes for a transformed world,
Fred Burks for PEERS and WantToKnow.info
Former White House interpreter and whistleblower

Important Update: Since the original publication of this report, some external webpages linked to were removed. We used archive.org to find copies of the disappeared pages. And a July 2013 article stated HAARP was officially shuttered in June 2013. Yet a May 2014 article contradicts this stating it will close "after a final research experiment takes place in mid-June" of 2014. This may be an excuse to stop the live broadcasting of HAARP's signals on a public website, which provided fodder for conspiracy theorists. Watch a six-minute video on a 2014 Senate hearing which discussed the future of HAARP. With all the intense secrecy around the project for reasons of "national security," it's hard to know what is really happening.

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• Read other powerful, reliable major media articles on nonlethal beam weapons.
• Inform your media and political representatives of this critical information on HAARP and weather control. To contact those close to you, visit this page. Urge them bring this information to light and allow public dialog on HAARP, weather control and electromagnetic weapons.
• To read excellent, well researched articles by top researchers in the field of HAARP, electromagnetic warfare and secret weapons, click here, here, and here.
• Learn about the intriguing history and development of controversial behavior modification programs in this excellent two-page summary. Footnotes and links to reliable sources are provided for verification purposes.
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