![]() Here's a screen grab of a contributor post on Before It's News, a citizen journalist website that's home to many of these conspiracy theories, from a contributor who says this is "compelling evidence" that HAARP is at work:Īs Gawker's Ken Layne writes, the "stated goal of HAARP is to study the ionosphere and how the spectrum of radio waves works within these upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere." Essentially, HAARP researches communications. So, yes, the Oklahoma tornado truthers claim the administration whipped up a storm that killed 24 people through HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, in Alaska. Obviously, there's been a little less coverage of scandalmania this week.īut, obviously, no one in the administration is a mutant who can psionically change weather patterns like Storm of the X-Men. (Update: Five were found alive.) Toddlers died in this tornado, the medical examiner's office said late Thursday morning. Officials at a press conference in Moore Wednesday afternoon said that 12,000-13,000 homes had been affected, with property damage of $1.5-$2 billion, and six people still missing. The conspiracy theory of the moment goes something like this: The Obama administration is being asked how much they knew about three apparent scandals - Benghazi, the IRS, the Justice Department's double leak investigations - and in order to make Americans think about something else, the administration manipulated the weather and created the mile-wide Moore tornado. ![]() And being "unsure" of something is exactly the way conspiracy theories work: It allows people like Jones to sow doubt, float an untrue story - in this case, about the government creating a massive tornado - while at the same time giving truthers a loophole to squeeze through, without being held accountable or stating on the record anything they actually do believe. Turned out it was the Air Force," Alex Jones said on his radio show Tuesday afternoon, adding he wasn't sure if a government "weather weapon" was used against Moore. "Of course there's weather weapon stuff going on - we had floods in Texas like fifteen years ago, killed thirty-something people in one night. If you thought 9/11 conspiracy theorists were bad, or the Sandy Hook and Boston bombing truthers were reckless, Obama's meteorological manipulation - all to distract a country from three Washington scandals - well, that might be a new level of ridiculous. It took less than 48 hours for the truthers to furiously accuse the White House - perhaps by way of George Soros - of creating the tornado itself. On Sunday, six days after a furious and deadly tornado, President Obama will reportedly head to Moore, Oklahoma. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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