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Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP

First time accepted submitter registrations_suck (1075251) writes in with news about the dismantling of the HAARP project. The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer. The shutdown of HAARP, a project created by the late Sen. Ted Stevens when he wielded great control over the U.S. defense budget, will start after a final research experiment takes place in mid-June, the Air Force said in a letter to Congress Tuesday. While the University of Alaska has expressed interest in taking over the research site, which is off the Tok Cutoff, in an area where black spruce was cleared a quarter-century ago for the Air Force Backscatter radar project that was never completed. But the school has not volunteered to pay $5 million a year to run HAARP. Responding to questions from Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski during a Senate hearing Wednesday, David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering, said this is 'not an area that we have any need for in the future' and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. 'We're moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do,' he said. 'To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed.' Comments of that sort have given rise to endless conspiracy theories, portraying HAARP as a super weapon capable of mind control or weather control, with enough juice to trigger hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes."

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  1. Climate Science Defector Forced to Resign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Climate Science Defector Forced to Resign by Alarmist 'Fatwa'

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/14/Climate-Science-Defector-Forced-to-Resign-by-Alarmist-Fatwa

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            I have been put under such an enormous group pressure in recent days from all over the world that has become virtually unbearable to me. If this is going to continue I will be unable to conduct my normal work and will even start to worry about my health and safety. I see therefore no other way out therefore than resigning from GWPF. I had not expecting such an enormous world-wide pressure put at me from a community that I have been close to all my active life. Colleagues are withdrawing their support, other colleagues are withdrawing from joint authorship etc. I see no limit and end to what will happen.

            It is a situation that reminds me about the time of McCarthy. I would never have expecting anything similar in such an original peaceful community as meteorology. Apparently it has been transformed in recent years. Under these situation I will be unable to contribute positively to the work of GWPF and consequently therefore I believe it is the best for me to reverse my decision to join its Board at the earliest possible time."

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    Hey you assholes, if you have to force your beliefs on people, you might want to start to have a think about the motives behind these things.

    AGW is nothing but a lie designed to redistribute wealth from those that have it, to those who want it, and can most fully use the media to direct the angst of the gullible proles to believe their AGW bullshit lies.

    The media manufacture all of these crisis and direct public policy as efficiently as Pravda ever did. Reagan was a monster thanks to the media. GWB -- totes imperial president, media. Obama, enlightened lightbringer, no imperialism there! Media. AGW - OMG the oceans are rising! Media.

    And you rubes fall for it pretty dammned fast don't you! HAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAAHAHAHA.

  2. Republicans are nutcakes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's shocking how backwards their kind is that they believe such garbage. They have destroyed this country, and they are now working hard to try to export their stupidity. There is no hope for the world now.