Some truly off-the-wall comments on a story on the Haitian relief operations I wrote last week suggest that Haiti was not hit by an earthquake but some sort of a planned attack by the United States.
I have been pondering what kind of weapon could mimic a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, when the answer popped into my e-mail on Thursday. The Air Force, Navy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and University of Alaska funded High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) projects to use high-powered radio transmitters located near Gakona, Alaska, to conduct ionospheric research.
HAARP conspiracy theorists have conjectured since the mid-1990s that the Defense Department plans to use modified global weather to impair the mental health of large populations and knock out worldwide communications systems.
Now this just in: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has suggested the United States used HAARP to cause the Haiti earthquakes.
Somehow, according to comments I have received says the Defense Information Systems Agency - yes, that's DISA - is enmeshed in this conspiracy. DISA, I'm told, has no plans for world domination, which is refreshing to know.
COMMENTS
Nikola Tesla was able to cause an earthquake half way around the world from his lab in NYC, over 100 years ago. This is not new technology. He was the one who discovered the basics and invented the technology. It is totally possible. The US gov has had his papers and have developed this since his death in 1943. Wake up and read and learn. It has nothing to do with tinfoil. Maybe you the people who always accuse others of wearing tin foil hats,are the ones with tin foil who cannot let any knowledge into your heads.
Jena 02/01/10 04:20 am ET
Paranoia will destroy yea!
Mr. Chavez
Charles Joseph Little 01/26/10 12:35 am ET
Last I heard earthquakes were geologic events n ot weather...so, what's the connection between HAARP and Haiti
Bryan 01/25/10 05:36 pm ET
Somebody has been watching too many movies. Movies are imaginative stores cast for our amusement, not a foretelling of the future.
And oh yes, America wants to dominate the world so we can place everyone on welfare and really send our economy through the toilet (sarcasm).
AMS 01/25/10 11:38 am ET
Has anyone checked the oil Chavez is sending us? What if it contains oil eating bacteria to destroy our strategic reserves? My N.O. Saints cap is lined with aluminum foil. So is Peyton's helmet, so Louisiana psychics can't steal his plays. Isn't this fun!
Cicero 01/25/10 08:31 am ET
I know there was something fish once the Dominican Republic felt nothing on the same island.
Anonymous 01/22/10 11:46 pm ET
HAARP is a legitimate research program - so who would start these rumors????
In any good conspiracy one must always follow the money.
Everyone knows that the most effective way to protect oneself from any advanced mind control technology is quite simple and low tech namely the tried and true tinfoil hat.
So where does tinfoil come from??? Aluminum manufacturers of course!
Now how is the aluminum sector doing? Not too well based on Q4 earnings.
I suspect the aluminum vertical started the rumor at hopes of creating a run on aluminum foil and hence increasing their margins and EPS.
It always gets back to the money!
As for Chavez, he really was abducted by aliens as a child and probed repeatedly. Can you blame the guy for getting spooked easily by advanced technology.
He has unwittingly become the lead viral marketer for the aluminum vertical's dastardly plan to drive up aluminum foil margins.
Rumor has it that several crates of aluminum foil and Xanax have been anonymously delivered to the presidential palace in Caracas.
Dino McCormack 01/22/10 11:51 am ET