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| The singer, songwriter who lured me into her unfamiliar Facebook web, then gave me the heave-ho when I proved to be an irritant. How could you not instantly love that serene countenance though? |
As far as I was concerned, I was simply enthralled by what I felt was a Joni Mitchell clone, only possibly better. Her "Ave Maria Prayer for Children" and rendition of "Both Sides Now" completely won me over.
The environmentalist and truth teller side of Kate was all new to me and it became abundantly clear that I had strayed into a situation that was completely foreign to me. Her Facebook timeline is almost completely given over to her commitment to an engineered weather and conspiracy theory in addition to a disdain for the "liberal" faction. I was not prepared for any of that.
Kate Magdalena Willens, the protest singer and social media activist, became an intriguing enigma for me with her unexpected contradiction of interests and talent.
Truthfully, I had difficulty following the train of thought.
Over the course of several weeks I attempted to rationalize and understand posts like the above and even went so far as to pose a few questions and suggest alternate views in my Devil's Advocate sort of way which, I admit, is not always appreciated. In one of her responses to me she wrote "Please stop telling us how to live Dick. Many others are doing the hard work of dealing with the reality in which we find ourselves. You have your path, and others have theirs. Don't presume you have to teach others the way, or pontificate, please, thank you."
I was being taken to task for my reaction to an open letter from one of Kate's staunch followers -- a poor soul by the name of Tim Boyd. It is classic example. Here is what Tim had to say:
"Open message to all you victims of mind control and social engineering out there. Isn't it about time you opened your eyes to the reality of it all? How can you Not see, what is being done, on a daily basis? Do you Not care? Isn't the future of your kids and grandkids, indeed, the future of Planet Earth, worth anything to you?
"It is happening on All fronts...whether or not you want to believe it. "Oh...I am Not going down that rabbit hole..." Well, I hate to be the one to inform you of this FACT...simply because you refuse to acknowledge these things, it will Not make them go away. They actually are making you ill, causing Dis Ease, Big Pharma, the AMA, all for profit, and possibly other nefarious reasons. Control perhaps...and throw the Military Industrial Complex into the mix...the CIA, and a few other corrupt ABC agencies such as the EPA, USDA, FDA and BLM...agencies that are supposed to protect us from the very crimes they are in fact perpetrating on us.
"9-11 was an inside job...geoengineering of the skies and weather modification is very real...genetically modified organisms are Not beneficial to Life...vaccines are largely Harmful, rather than helpful...I could go on, but suffice to say, we Are being attacked on many levels. The ones of us who are spreading the word, tirelessly in most cases, enduring verbal abuse from friends and relatives, will continue. Join us please. We are approaching Critical Mass. Be the Hundredth Monkey!"
I could not help myself! In thanking Tim for his efforts in tirelessly spreading the word, I asked "...what do you propose we now do with the information you dispense...Worry ourselves sick, live in a bubble, start a rebellion, pray a lot while continuing to enjoy a fool's paradise here on earth or better yet, ignore you in the hope that you will eventually go away and take the prophet of doom and gloom with you?" I further suggested that if Tim saw himself as part of the Critical Mass, he was going about it all wrong. "Try something tangible like unconditional happiness, peace and love to all the world instead of critical scolding of unbelievers and see how that approach works for you," I urged.
I was quick to learn that on Kate's timeline it was either her way or the highway. You are either with "the movement" all the way or you are not. There is no room for Mr. In Between, although she did manage tolerate me -- for while.
This is all by means of introducing what for me was an unexplored culture and way of looking at environmental events that are happening around the world. I haven't been able to think of much else in recent days. Here is what my subsequent research has revealed:
Contrary to popular belief, a technology that is capable of intensifying a hurricane exists and has existed since before most of us were born. This technology is not even secret. Since at least as far back as the 1940s, successful scientific experiments involving weather modification have been conducted. There is no longer any secrecy about the fact that technology capable of intensifying a tropical storm is real. The technology is known as cloud-seeding. An aircraft simply drops chemicals capable of encouraging condensation into a cloud, intensifying the storm.
In spite of the fact that the existence of one form of weather modification is not even a secret, governments and other organizations may be keeping secrets about when, how, and why the technology is used. Has the technology ever been used as a weapon? It certainly could be used as a way of inflicting death and destruction on a region without the inhabitants even knowing that they had been attacked.
Hurricanes of unusually high intensity do of course occur naturally. The undetectability makes weather modification a particularly dangerous weapon. In recent times, evidence that Hurricane Harvey was artificially strengthened has surfaced. The hurricane did not seem to be particularly strong in a natural way. Instead, the hurricane seems to have repeatedly regained its strength after weakening, an unlikely event if the hurricane was a purely natural force.
The technology allegedly used to refuel Hurricane Harvey does not seem to have been cloud seeding from aircraft, but rather man-made evaporation from facilities on the ground. Like cloud seeding, the existence of this technology is publicly known and is not kept secret. Analysis of satellite footage of the storm is said to be more compatible with artificial interference than with a natural storm of unusual intensity.
If the hurricane was in fact deliberately strengthened, what people were involved, and what was their motivation? There are few theories about why these storms are artificially strengthened. It is difficult to believe that weaponized storms are used simply to inflict fear on the population. Evil exists, but evil people and organizations tend to have motivations that one can understand.
As Americans begin to recover from the deluge of Hurricane Harvey and start to wrap their minds around ferocious Category 5 Irma, they find themselves in a dreadful moment between two storms of mythical proportions. As answers and up-to-date information is sought, our social media timelines are consumed with dire forecasts and projected outcomes.
At a glance, you may see no reason to doubt the data -- it certainly appears to be a viable scientific prediction. But what about that handle, @weatherwarsinfo? Sounds kind of suspicious. So you Google the name “Scott Stevens,” plus “meteorologist,” and you find that, he believes so-called chemtrails are used to control weather patterns. You learn that he resigned as the meteorologist of a local TV station in 1995 after it came out that he had lied about his credentials.
More astonishingly, Stevens left a different TV station in 2005, after working there for nine years, so that he could pursue an unusual theory about Hurricane Katrina: He claimed that Japan’s Yakuza mafia had acquired an electromagnetic generator made in Russia at the height of the Cold War and used it to create the storm to “avenge” the victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. And in 2012, he told conspiracist Alex Jones that Hurricane Sandy’s path had been set by the government, which possesses means of weather modification beyond all reckoning.
Kate patterns much of her online presentation off the work of Stevens and others of his ilk. She even hosts a radio podcast as a means of furthering her "mission" with guests like Patrick Roddie, the Robin Hood of the geoengineering activist movement who sees his long-term goal of totally exposing human contamination of the environment as being a spiritually-inspired calling. The envornmental issue is a theme that is also written, or rewritten, into most of Kate's protest songs. *The above video is an excellent example of one of her songs that is both alluring and disturbing at the same time.
Yes, indeed weather "truthers" are out there, and they have some pretty creative (may I suggest, far-fetched) ideas. As wildfires rage in some areas and deadly flooding exists in others, they see a confluence of natural disasters that cannot amount to coincidence, or even the effects of dramatic, accelerating climate change. For some reason, they find a nefarious plot to direct the wind and rain with secret, advanced technology more plausible than evidence that carbon emissions contribute to the destructive power of hurricanes. And they latch onto odd details to make their case. Take this woman who interpreted a graphic of Irma’s size as proof that it was engineered specifically to engulf the state of Florida, which is roughly the same length.
Where the logic behind such weather warfare is concerned, the truthers are free to cite any number of explanations. Rush Limbaugh says hurricanes are manufactured (and hyped by the media) to sell bottled water and emergency supplies. California contractor Dane Wigington, who runs a geoengineering web site, believes Irma and Harvey are efforts to keep the eastern half of the U.S. artificially cool as the rest of the globe boils — and that includes the western U.S., which he calls a “climate sacrifice zone.”
And what of the methods? Artificial weather-chasers are typically even less specific there, except to say that the military-industrial complex has been experimenting with ways to start or prevent storms for many decades, so of course they figured it out.
If there’s one device or installation the conspiracy theorists have zeroed in on, it’s the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), based in Gakona, Alaska.
The facility was established in the early 1990s by the Navy, Air Force, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Its antennae were used to research ionospheric phenomena in the hopes of developing enhanced technology “for communications and surveillance purposes,” per the program’s description. This combination of widely misunderstood science, a remote location and government interests — it is, after all, “a gigantic, high-energy, Pentagon-funded gizmo” — has led people to believe that HAARP is a mind-control operation, a means of assassination and the culprit behind everything from the TWA Flight 800 crash to the Columbine shooting. And despite having been shut down several years ago, it continues to take the blame for recent waves of “weaponized” weather.
Lest you assume, however, that everyone in this niche agrees on HAARP’s role in all this, I’d point you to the YouTube account WeatherWar101, which takes a strong stance against the “HAARP drivel” and “Chemtrail Confusion” peddled by Wigington and Stevens. Their takes have “turned the entire community into laughing stock,” the channel’s anonymous operator writes, arguing that “In-Place Sequential Water Vapor Generation” is the cause of Irma and Harvey. (When you can’t point to ominous-looking machinery, it seems the best course of action is to cloak your writing in dense jargon.)
The fact is, weather modification does exist — and its repeated failures are the best indications that nobody has the capacity to manufacture hurricanes. Cloud seeding, a way of increasing precipitation by distributing particles (often silver iodide) into an air system, remains an unproven technique more than a century after it was first pioneered, yet California is bone-dry and desperate enough to try to force rainfall this way. Project Stormfury, an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones using similar principles, fizzled out in the 1980s. And psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich thought to manipulate the skies with his “cloudbuster” device, which he said influenced “Orgone Energy,” a cosmic life force he also happened to invent. (Widely considered a fraud, Reich later died in prison.)
The machine most emblematic of our inability to harness or repel climate events, however, would be the hail cannon, “a shock wave generator used to disrupt the formation of hailstones in their growing phase.” Although the concept supposedly dates back to before the Industrial Revolution, there’s no reason to suspect hail cannons actually work — in reality, they’re more of a loud annoyance, producing intense booming noises every few seconds when a storm is detected. Would a civilization that can create or guide massive hurricanes still be using something this silly and superstitious?
Truthers, of course, will insist that the last few generations of progress in weather control have been kept secret. Their strange conviction as to our species’ technological omnipotence harks back to ancient rituals meant to please the gods of the sun and surf, guaranteeing favorable seasons. No doubt it is more comforting to think that some undefined “they,” no matter how evil, is in control of the elements than to confront our basic helplessness — just as President Trump would rather dismiss climate change as an elaborate Chinese hoax than deal with the stark threats it poses to the planet.
In that light, the weather-control conspiracists represent a perverse new iteration of climate-change skepticism, which otherwise tends to hold that human impact on nature is grossly overstated. While many of us worry about whether Harvey, Irma, droughts and heatwaves are partly “human-made” catastrophes, worsened by melting glaciers and rising oceans, the weather truthers are at once ignoring that possibility and heightening it to a fabulist extreme: Not only are the hurricanes and wildfires human-made, but we made them on purpose, to serve a shadowy elite. The same global trends that up the frequency of “hundred-year” floods will simply reinforce this narrative, offering countless more examples of brazenly “engineered” storms.
In other words, as forecasts call for more wild weather, we can expect to hear a lot more from the
Kate Magdalena Willens of the world. Trust me, this has been a mere tip-of-the-iceberg summary. There is so much more to this controversial subject.
In spite of the fact that the existence of one form of weather modification is not even a secret, governments and other organizations may be keeping secrets about when, how, and why the technology is used. Has the technology ever been used as a weapon? It certainly could be used as a way of inflicting death and destruction on a region without the inhabitants even knowing that they had been attacked.
Hurricanes of unusually high intensity do of course occur naturally. The undetectability makes weather modification a particularly dangerous weapon. In recent times, evidence that Hurricane Harvey was artificially strengthened has surfaced. The hurricane did not seem to be particularly strong in a natural way. Instead, the hurricane seems to have repeatedly regained its strength after weakening, an unlikely event if the hurricane was a purely natural force.
The technology allegedly used to refuel Hurricane Harvey does not seem to have been cloud seeding from aircraft, but rather man-made evaporation from facilities on the ground. Like cloud seeding, the existence of this technology is publicly known and is not kept secret. Analysis of satellite footage of the storm is said to be more compatible with artificial interference than with a natural storm of unusual intensity.
If the hurricane was in fact deliberately strengthened, what people were involved, and what was their motivation? There are few theories about why these storms are artificially strengthened. It is difficult to believe that weaponized storms are used simply to inflict fear on the population. Evil exists, but evil people and organizations tend to have motivations that one can understand.
As Americans begin to recover from the deluge of Hurricane Harvey and start to wrap their minds around ferocious Category 5 Irma, they find themselves in a dreadful moment between two storms of mythical proportions. As answers and up-to-date information is sought, our social media timelines are consumed with dire forecasts and projected outcomes.
At a glance, you may see no reason to doubt the data -- it certainly appears to be a viable scientific prediction. But what about that handle, @weatherwarsinfo? Sounds kind of suspicious. So you Google the name “Scott Stevens,” plus “meteorologist,” and you find that, he believes so-called chemtrails are used to control weather patterns. You learn that he resigned as the meteorologist of a local TV station in 1995 after it came out that he had lied about his credentials.
More astonishingly, Stevens left a different TV station in 2005, after working there for nine years, so that he could pursue an unusual theory about Hurricane Katrina: He claimed that Japan’s Yakuza mafia had acquired an electromagnetic generator made in Russia at the height of the Cold War and used it to create the storm to “avenge” the victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. And in 2012, he told conspiracist Alex Jones that Hurricane Sandy’s path had been set by the government, which possesses means of weather modification beyond all reckoning.
Kate patterns much of her online presentation off the work of Stevens and others of his ilk. She even hosts a radio podcast as a means of furthering her "mission" with guests like Patrick Roddie, the Robin Hood of the geoengineering activist movement who sees his long-term goal of totally exposing human contamination of the environment as being a spiritually-inspired calling. The envornmental issue is a theme that is also written, or rewritten, into most of Kate's protest songs. *The above video is an excellent example of one of her songs that is both alluring and disturbing at the same time.
Yes, indeed weather "truthers" are out there, and they have some pretty creative (may I suggest, far-fetched) ideas. As wildfires rage in some areas and deadly flooding exists in others, they see a confluence of natural disasters that cannot amount to coincidence, or even the effects of dramatic, accelerating climate change. For some reason, they find a nefarious plot to direct the wind and rain with secret, advanced technology more plausible than evidence that carbon emissions contribute to the destructive power of hurricanes. And they latch onto odd details to make their case. Take this woman who interpreted a graphic of Irma’s size as proof that it was engineered specifically to engulf the state of Florida, which is roughly the same length.
Where the logic behind such weather warfare is concerned, the truthers are free to cite any number of explanations. Rush Limbaugh says hurricanes are manufactured (and hyped by the media) to sell bottled water and emergency supplies. California contractor Dane Wigington, who runs a geoengineering web site, believes Irma and Harvey are efforts to keep the eastern half of the U.S. artificially cool as the rest of the globe boils — and that includes the western U.S., which he calls a “climate sacrifice zone.”
And what of the methods? Artificial weather-chasers are typically even less specific there, except to say that the military-industrial complex has been experimenting with ways to start or prevent storms for many decades, so of course they figured it out.
If there’s one device or installation the conspiracy theorists have zeroed in on, it’s the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), based in Gakona, Alaska.
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| High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (image via Wikipedia) |
Lest you assume, however, that everyone in this niche agrees on HAARP’s role in all this, I’d point you to the YouTube account WeatherWar101, which takes a strong stance against the “HAARP drivel” and “Chemtrail Confusion” peddled by Wigington and Stevens. Their takes have “turned the entire community into laughing stock,” the channel’s anonymous operator writes, arguing that “In-Place Sequential Water Vapor Generation” is the cause of Irma and Harvey. (When you can’t point to ominous-looking machinery, it seems the best course of action is to cloak your writing in dense jargon.)
The fact is, weather modification does exist — and its repeated failures are the best indications that nobody has the capacity to manufacture hurricanes. Cloud seeding, a way of increasing precipitation by distributing particles (often silver iodide) into an air system, remains an unproven technique more than a century after it was first pioneered, yet California is bone-dry and desperate enough to try to force rainfall this way. Project Stormfury, an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones using similar principles, fizzled out in the 1980s. And psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich thought to manipulate the skies with his “cloudbuster” device, which he said influenced “Orgone Energy,” a cosmic life force he also happened to invent. (Widely considered a fraud, Reich later died in prison.)
The machine most emblematic of our inability to harness or repel climate events, however, would be the hail cannon, “a shock wave generator used to disrupt the formation of hailstones in their growing phase.” Although the concept supposedly dates back to before the Industrial Revolution, there’s no reason to suspect hail cannons actually work — in reality, they’re more of a loud annoyance, producing intense booming noises every few seconds when a storm is detected. Would a civilization that can create or guide massive hurricanes still be using something this silly and superstitious?
Truthers, of course, will insist that the last few generations of progress in weather control have been kept secret. Their strange conviction as to our species’ technological omnipotence harks back to ancient rituals meant to please the gods of the sun and surf, guaranteeing favorable seasons. No doubt it is more comforting to think that some undefined “they,” no matter how evil, is in control of the elements than to confront our basic helplessness — just as President Trump would rather dismiss climate change as an elaborate Chinese hoax than deal with the stark threats it poses to the planet.
In that light, the weather-control conspiracists represent a perverse new iteration of climate-change skepticism, which otherwise tends to hold that human impact on nature is grossly overstated. While many of us worry about whether Harvey, Irma, droughts and heatwaves are partly “human-made” catastrophes, worsened by melting glaciers and rising oceans, the weather truthers are at once ignoring that possibility and heightening it to a fabulist extreme: Not only are the hurricanes and wildfires human-made, but we made them on purpose, to serve a shadowy elite. The same global trends that up the frequency of “hundred-year” floods will simply reinforce this narrative, offering countless more examples of brazenly “engineered” storms.
In other words, as forecasts call for more wild weather, we can expect to hear a lot more from the
Kate Magdalena Willens of the world. Trust me, this has been a mere tip-of-the-iceberg summary. There is so much more to this controversial subject.
Oh yes, I almost forgot...Kate has since eliminated me from her Facebook timeline. She gave me the following kiss-off: "Dick just wanted to say i'm sorry about unfriending you, i don't have any hard feelings, but i just don't want you commenting in the same way about everything i post. my mission is given to me, and i'm following it! Thanks for your friendly attitude."
It is an ill wind...
My beautiful songstress ends up singing a different tune and I now hear it with less naive ears, sadly not as much to my liking. Too bad!
I'll weather the disappointment, a little heart-broken, slightly insulted but a little more informed on one of the most controversial subjects of the century! I suppose it could well end up being the death of me...In truth, I really don't know.
It is an ill wind...
My beautiful songstress ends up singing a different tune and I now hear it with less naive ears, sadly not as much to my liking. Too bad!
I'll weather the disappointment, a little heart-broken, slightly insulted but a little more informed on one of the most controversial subjects of the century! I suppose it could well end up being the death of me...In truth, I really don't know.
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