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Audrey Garric the French journalist for Le Monde has published an article titled ‘Climate weapons really exist?’ in which she states “Could the rising tide of … natural disasters be explained by man’s voluntary action? Could these cataclysms be triggered deliberately by the army, for political reasons? For years, these conspiracy theories, relayed generously on the Internet, suggest that the climate could be manipulated as part of strategic or tactical wars. …In the U.S., from the 1950s, official reports or statements recognize the military usefulness of climate change techniques. "Intervention in atmospheric and climatic matters . . . will unfold on a scale difficult to imagine at present . . . this will merge each nation’s affairs with those of every other, more thoroughly than the threat of a nuclear or any other war would have done," said American mathematician John von Neumann at the height of the Cold War in 1955. Between 1967 and 1972 during the Vietnam War, Operation Popeye used cloud "seeding" techniques by injecting silver iodine. The idea was to trigger rain and extend monsoon season in order to slow down the movement of enemy troops through the Ho-Chi-Minh trail. As the U.S. and Russia were holding a scientific race to be the first to control the climate, the UN decided to create a legal framework. In 1977, the Enmod Convention, ratified by the UN General Assembly banned the military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques. It targets "any technique for changing - through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes - the dynamics, composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space."”   Inspired by Audrey Garric, Le Monde ow.ly/gKAOs Image source Facebook ow.ly/gKACe Do climate weapons really exist? (January 19 2013)

Audrey Garric the French journalist for Le Monde has published an article titled ‘Climate weapons really exist?’ in which she states “Could the rising tide of … natural disasters be explained by man’s voluntary action? Could these cataclysms be triggered deliberately by the army, for political reasons? For years, these conspiracy theories, relayed generously on the Internet, suggest that the climate could be manipulated as part of strategic or tactical wars. …In the U.S., from the 1950s, official reports or statements recognize the military usefulness of climate change techniques. “Intervention in atmospheric and climatic matters . . . will unfold on a scale difficult to imagine at present . . . this will merge each nation’s affairs with those of every other, more thoroughly than the threat of a nuclear or any other war would have done,” said American mathematician John von Neumann at the height of the Cold War in 1955. Between 1967 and 1972 during the Vietnam War, Operation Popeye used cloud “seeding” techniques by injecting silver iodine. The idea was to trigger rain and extend monsoon season in order to slow down the movement of enemy troops through the Ho-Chi-Minh trail. As the U.S. and Russia were holding a scientific race to be the first to control the climate, the UN decided to create a legal framework. In 1977, the Enmod Convention, ratified by the UN General Assembly banned the military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques. It targets “any technique for changing – through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes – the dynamics, composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space.””

 

Inspired by Audrey Garric, Le Monde ow.ly/gKAOs Image source Facebook ow.ly/gKACe

Donald John Trump the 64 year old US real estate developer, television personality and potential GOP candidate for the US 2012 presidential race, has come under intense scrutiny over his stance on many issues conflicting with his historical record, along with his apparent support for issues and individuals from both conservative and progressive sides of the US politics. Despite his popularity having grown within the more extreme elements of the GOP with his vocal ‘Birther’ calls on President Obama, Trump has been ridiculed for this stance, and also been accused of draft dodging during the Vietnam war years, relying on educational and medical excuses to avoid subscription. Counter calls are now being made for Trump to release his tax and financial returns as he had earlier promised. Inspired by Alex Alvarez ow.ly/4KAl2 image source Gage Skidmore ow.ly/4KAkK Got lucky and avoided serving his country (May 4 2011)

Donald John Trump the 64 year old US real estate developer, television personality and potential GOP candidate for the US 2012 presidential race, has come under intense scrutiny over his stance on many issues conflicting with his historical record, along with his apparent support for issues and individuals from both conservative and progressive sides of the US politics. Despite his popularity having grown within the more extreme elements of the GOP with his vocal ‘Birther’ calls on President Obama, Trump has been ridiculed for this stance, and also been accused of draft dodging during the Vietnam war years, relying on educational and medical excuses to avoid subscription. Counter calls are now being made for Trump to release his tax and financial returns as he had earlier promised.

 

Inspired by Alex Alvarez ow.ly/4KAl2 image source Gage Skidmore ow.ly/4KAkK

Daniel Ellsberg the 79 year old former US military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post about the top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, has along with other demonstrators been arrested at a demonstration in support of currently detained whistleblower Bradley Manning outside the Marine Corps Brig at Quantico. Hundreds of protestors assembled outside the base where Bradley Manning is being held on dozens of charges relating to his leak of classified diplomatic cables and video to Wikileaks. The protestors primary concern relates to allegations of torture and punitive treatments being applied to Manning by his military jailors. Inspired by Ben Nuckols ow.ly/4kwBn image source Jacob Appelbaum ow.ly/4kwEm Caution: Whistleblower Torture Zone (March 27 2011)

Daniel Ellsberg the 79 year old former US military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post about the top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, has along with other demonstrators been arrested at a demonstration in support of currently detained whistleblower Bradley Manning outside the Marine Corps Brig at Quantico. Hundreds of protestors assembled outside the base where Bradley Manning is being held on dozens of charges relating to his leak of classified diplomatic cables and video to Wikileaks. The protestors primary concern relates to allegations of torture and punitive treatments being applied to Manning by his military jailors.

 

Inspired by Ben Nuckols ow.ly/4kwBn image source Jacob Appelbaum ow.ly/4kwEm

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