In article <vjoeob7j9sc666@corp.supernews.com>, Harry says...

Howdy Doctor Dick:

"Sir Arthur CBE Wholeflaffers ASA"
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Amalgamated Press - A truth-terrorist group
known  as the Cult of Useful Idiots took credit today
for exploding a gamma-ray bomb that knocked out
power  to the entire eastern seaboard.

This loosly-knit band of crack-pots,
paranoids, delusional whackos and
useful idiots have been responsible for
all kinds of mayehm, mostly plugging
up the alien usenet newsgroups.

Said researcher Sir Arthur Wholeflaffers,
"Yes, this does NOT surprise me that they
are implicated in this horrible deed.

Nice article.  

Thanks Mr. NSA-Borsch-Belt.  

Now it's beginning to look LIKE the
Black-out was a test of HAARP.

Thanks for tipping me off about this one!
It's funny how you spOOks do let us know what
is going on, at least through the back-channels!

Did a Secret Military Experiment Cause the 2003 Blackout? by Anonymous, Unknown
et al
The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ANA309A.html
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Editor's Note: We bring to our readers a highly controversial article.

While the main thesis presented is not proven, the facts and analysis presented
deserve to be taken seriously. The author of this article is a scientist who
works in ionospheric research and who is well informed on the impacts of the
HAARP program.

In our opinion, the matter requires further investigation before arriving at a
definitive statement on the causes of the blackout.

We, nonetheless, believe that the analysis and facts presented in this article
warrant the attention of the various governmental agencies in the US and Canada
involved in the investigation of the August 14 blackout, including the NY Public
Service Commission, the Northeast Power Coordinating Council, the joint
US-Canada task force and the congressional inquiry.

Abstract.

On August 14, 2003, just a few minutes after the stock market closed for the
day, a nine-minute �event� had brought the entire Northeastern power grid down.
It is believed that over fifty million people lost power that afternoon. Since
this unprecedented event, blame games have flown back and forth, but no real
answers have been provided. It is believed that the event originated in an area
in the power grid where there is a bottleneck of power transmission between the
eastern U.S. and the Midwest. But what has caused this mess? Outdated equipment,
irresponsible power companies, and politicians have all been blamed without any
solid evidence to support the accusations. What hasn�t been suggested is the
possibility that this was a secret government test that served the purpose of
fulfilling requirements for sophisticated warfare and security response
mechanisms.

The Facts

Here are the facts. The power grid that was affected was the northeast grid. Not
the vulnerable California grid, or the southeastern grid that Washington DC
relies upon, and not that strangely isolated Texas oil grid. It was the grid
that the northeast U.S. and southeast Canada rely on. A region that a large
scale outage would not have a really devastating effect on the economy or
military control centers. The event conveniently began a few minutes after the
closing bell on Wall Street as to not effect the days trading, but while power
usage in the northeast on that hot day was still at peak. The event began in a
bottleneck region where only a few percent increase in power flow could cause
such a critical failure of the entire grid. The physical cause of the event such
as the classic squirrel shorting out a transformer, has not been found; there
were no indications of any lightning being present; nor was there any
significant solar activity to cause an unexpected surge in the grid. Finally,
the HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) was turned on just
after 4:00 PM EST on that fateful day.

The question is �Could a secret HAARP experiment have caused the blackout?�  
Interesting ionospheric effects occurred on 8/14/2003 that would have made the
conditions for such a secret military test ideal, including a widespread, highly
reflective ionospheric layer being expected (and was likely created by the
electron event seen in figure 1), which would allow ideal conditions for signal
propagation over long distances.  Unfortunately, the ionosonde data that would
help show where the effects of HAARP were directed by providing a picture of the
ionosphere were not posted on the day of the blackout. The Gakona Ionosonde data
is frequently not posted when classified HAARP experiments take place.

What we do know is that HAARP was turned on at or just after 4:00 pm EST; it
would take a few minutes for the target area to respond (say around 4:05 pm)
which would allow a nine minute event to knock the power out at 4:14 pm EST.
HAARP, Ionospheric Warfare, and Potential Applications

Those of us who work in ionospheric research, and who are concerned with
environment risks associated with ionospheric warfare are familiar with HAARP.
The basic concept that HAARP relies upon is based on work by N. Tesla when he
was attempting to devise a method for the wireless transmission of electrical
power, and subsequently picked up in the early 20th century for the purpose of
finding a way to modify the weather. It is thought that this technology was used
by world leaders such as Stalin, whom during important outdoor events may have
used such technology to prevent unwanted rain or fog. These claims were often
associated with widespread reports of people feeling mysteriously ill. One of
the leading researchers in this field is Dr. Bernard Eastlund, whom to this day
accepts money from organizations such the European Space Agency to research
potential weather modification applications including the possibility of
stopping tornadoes with this type of technology.

HAARP is a phased-array ionospheric heater that is capable of focusing large
quantities of electromagnetic energy into very localized regions that are very
far away from the source. It is entirely possible that the HAARP heaters were
directed at the power grid�s bottleneck while the grid was operating near peak
capacity. The sudden presence of electromagnetic energy could easily force an
unexpected increase in the power flow which could in-turn cause a critical
failure such as the one seen on august 14, 2003.

Despite the claims of HAARP advocates, ionospheric heaters can use the
ionosphere to reflect their energy at distances several thousand miles away by
using the ionosphere as a �mirror� much the same way as AM radio signals travel
over vast distances. Unlike an AM radio, HAARP can use phase interference to
focus it�s energy on a localized area (such as the weak point on the power
grid). The only requirement to achieve geographic precision is that geomagnetic
activity be minimal such as it was on the day of the blackout. Also, there was a
short duration test about� 20 minutes before the hour. Such a test would serve
the purpose of showing the researchers exactly where the beam would focus itself
given the cur- rent conditions, and would be a necessary step before executing
such an experiment.

So why would the government do this to us? Well, first of.  all, HAARP is
sponsored primarily by the Air Force Weather Agency and �other agencies�, and is
known to be used as an ionospheric warfare tool. This would be an ideal way to
test possible military applications of the instrument. It would be of great
military value if :we could cause an entire region to lose electricity almost
instantly without dropping a single bomb. Of course, this would need to be
tested in a controlled environment where the effects could be thoroughly
analyzed (such as on our own soil). It would be done in an area that could most
easily handle such a large-scale power outage (such as the northeast US). Also,
being in a new age of terrorism, this was an excellent homeland security
response test. By having a blackout that covered one quarter of the country we
can now see how people would respond, what the strengths and weaknesses of our
emergency response systems are, and how quickly we could restore our systems to
operating capacity. If this was a military experiment it would certainly have
served multiple purposes. I also believe it would have been a strong temptation
for anyone with the power to conduct such an experiment to do so.

Conspiracy Theories and Reality

The blame games that have gone on since the blackout have no hard evidence to
back them up. Although it may sound like an episode of the X-files, the facts
are clear; HAARP is an ionospheric warfare tool, it is capable of focusing it�s
electromagnetic energy at long distances, it was turned on right at the time the
event began, and such a scenario would serve multiple national security
interests simultaneously with minimal economic impact. So we must ask ourselves,
is considering HAARP as a potential source of the blackout a ridiculous
conspiracy theory, or is it the most reasonable explanation given the facts?

I am a concerned ionospheric physicist whom has worked with HAARP. I am
concerned with the unknown environmental and military implications of this
device, and the potential abuses thereof. I am not a conspiracy nut, and I do
believe that HAARP is a useful tool that needs to be put into responsible hands
where it is not abused and where the public has full access to it�s experimental
capabilities and data. It is an instrument that is paid for by tax-payers
dollars and is currently not in the hands of people who have earned or deserve
our confidence and trust.

So what really happened on August 14? I�m really not sure, but we must ask
ourselves what the most likely scenario�s are without ruling out any
possibilities; even those that sound like they have no place other than the
sci-fi channel. "The Truth is out There", so I leave it for you to decide.

Anonymous

Regretfully, because I am a research scientist, and because I face the
possibility of certain repercussions in my field of work for revealing this
information to the public, I cannot reveal my true identity. I believe the facts
I have presented herein are sufficient to speak for themselves and should
convince the public that oversight is needed when experimenting with aspects of
the atmosphere that are not well known.

The data that is presented was accessed from the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration website at www.sec.noaa.gov, and from the HAARP
homepage at www.haarp.alaska.edu   .

Figure 1. Satellite environment shows that an enhanced flux of high energy
electrons which would create preferable reflection conditions for HAARP were
present at the time of the event, and geomagnetic activity that could cause
problems with the power-grid were non-existent

Figure 2. The waterfall chart indicates HAARP was turned on just after 4:00 pm
EST on 8/14/2003. The chart shows that frequencies of 5, 10, 15, and 29 Mega-
hertz are present for nearly an hour. The 5 mHz broad- cast frequency is the
strongest, and the others are likely to be resulting harmonics

(For archived  HAARP waterfall charts and more info about them see
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/mm/wf.html

For HAARP Fluxgate Magnetometer
http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/magnetometer/gak-mag.cgi   )
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For further discussion on the HAARP program, see the following CRG documents:

Michel Chossudovsky, Washington's New World Order Weapons Have the Ability to
Trigger Climate Change, CRG, January 2002,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO201A.html

Vladimir V. Sytin, Secret Use of Weather Modification Techniques by US Air
Force? Threat of U.S. Geophysical Weapons Faces Mankind, CRG, August 2003,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SYT308A.html

Interfax,.US Could Dominate The Planet if It Deploys This Weapon In Space, CRG,
August 2002, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/INT208A.html