salto;1873372 wrote:After reading about Operation Popeye from the Vietnam war, seems "chem trails" may be possible.
*Wonder if Belly has any experience in monsoons during his time in Vietnam.
No. It isn't. Theoretically? Sure, but not functionally.
salto;1873375 wrote:
DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
Presenter: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
April 28, 1997 8:45 AM EDT
Q: How prepared is the U.S. Government to deal with (inaudible)?
A: I think we have to really intensify our efforts. That's the reason for the Nunn/Lugar II program. That's the reason why it's a local responsibility, as such, but the Department of Defense is going to be taking the lead as far as supervising the interagency working groups, and to make the assessments as to what needs to be done. So we're going to identify those 120 cities and work with them very closely to make sure that they can prepare themselves for what is likely to be a threat well into the future.
Q: Let me ask you specifically about last week's scare here in Washington, and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with that (inaudible), at B'nai Brith.
A: Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we've learned in the intelligence community, we had something called -- and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.
http://archive.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=674
Good lord. Did you read the actual transcript? He's referencing Toeffler's
War and Anti-War.
"Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific [...] and others are designing [...] some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops."
He's not saying people have learned how to engage in weather warfare.
salto;1873390 wrote:You're right. I'm sure our Government would never do anything deceitful.
Government is corrupt. However, government is comprised of people. People are individuals. Enough people make keeping secrets unlikely.
I don't doubt government's corruption. I doubt its competence.
