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so what if we aren't reaching the end times what if god isn't punishing us with a plague of natural

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disasters well conspiracy theorists have been hard at work coming up with plots and counterplots

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to account for all the disasters one of the most popular especially in the wake of hurricane

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katrina has to do with something called weather warfare that is some group maybe a government

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terrorists or even a mad genius is controlling the weather for their own purposes there's got to

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be a simple explanation for the why the weather is as bizarre as it is and this is the only thing

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that honestly makes sense scott stevens gained notoriety after hurricane katrina when he suggested

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the powerful storm was indeed the work of man stevens has more than a passing interest in the

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weather he spent nine years as the weatherman for a station in pocatello carolinas with the big eye

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will feel you just kind of churning off the coast uh still a big his interest in weather control was

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sparked when he read some stories about anomalies in cloud patterns that were supposedly caused by

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an electromagnetic grid in the sky a grid that could be manipulated by man instead of having

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the rounded clouds like what would expect in a fluid or gas environment because the clouds are

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conforming to this electrical grid we're seeing the square clouds now they're still kind of ratty on

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the edges but uh the holes are lined up very very uh horizontal and vertical in nature when stevens

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began looking at the sky and seeing what he considered irregularities in cloud patterns

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he began fearing the worst total weather control i got sick to the stomach because i realized the

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implications of what this meant the weather had been stolen from us and we didn't know it

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and stevens like many others believes man is responsible for the devastating hurricane katrina

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katrina displayed some anomalies within the cloud structure there were points there were straight lines

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there were angulars there were there were just there was simply geometry that should not have been

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there in a swirling type of storm stevens suggested that the yakuza the japanese mafia may have caused the

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powerful storm the yakuza came across this technology from the kgb when the kgb and the soviet union went

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bankrupt in 1989 the kgb at least a department therein shopped this technology around and the yakuza paid the

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kgb for access to this scalar technology if it is indeed the yakuza then it's likely retaliation for

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how we ended world war ii with the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki that it would be a revenge

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kind of thing whether that's how it played out or not i don't know

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since as stevens says this technology doesn't leave fingerprints he also thinks any number of culprits

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could have manufactured katrina whether it's the yakuza the russians uh the chinese the india or or

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the states itself all of it's a possibility while weather warfare theories may sound like the plot of

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a james bond movie to some they're as obvious as a summer thunderstorm in fact scott stevens is so

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convinced of the danger of weather manipulation he quit his job to follow it full time and once the

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people see what's happening in the skies and all of these very unusual geophysical events you have

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to question whether there isn't some hand of man behind their origination you have to question

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most weather experts certainly do question theories of weather warfare in fact they flat out ridicule them

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well i wonder if leprechauns have it in for us i mean nobody has the faintest idea how to make a

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hurricane how to marshal the forces to make a hurricane uh it's just people's paranoia working

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over time it's difficult to imagine that anybody could do that on a clandestine level and and hide their

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activities just the scope of anything that would change the weather materially is so huge that you

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couldn't hide it hurricane katrina also spawned another theory in this one the government didn't

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cause the storm but they did supposedly use it to their advantage immediately and i mean immediately

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within a day 24 hours after a katrina hit right away i started getting emails it went like this

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this is a conspiracy here uh the levies were blown up by take your pick the army corps of engineers

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cia operatives bush operatives from the white house dick cheney operatives haliburton

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unnamed conspirators including up to and including of course even the fbi

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then over the next 24 hours next two days next three days the emails kept coming more and more

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we knew it we knew it this there was this gigantic plot but what's the plot the plot is again take your

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pick to wipe out african americans to wipe out poor people to steal the land to uh sanitize the city

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for developers uh to remake new orleans so it just went on and on in fact a similar claim was made

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after hurricane betsy struck new orleans in 1965 then a rumor made the rounds that the mayor had

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flooded the mostly poor mostly black ninth ward according to the talk around the neighborhood

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he had done this either to save his own district or to prevent the residents from voting against him

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governments tend to be inadequate in coping with these disasters or at least in helping those

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people quickly enough to really prevent their suffering it's not too many steps from that

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to feel that the government in question is the cause of the disaster

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what can make these conspiracy theories tug at our consciousness is they often contain a threat of

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the possible and the one about dynamited levies is no different one thing that oftentimes gives

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conspiracy theories some legs some resonance there's always just a kernel maybe a little bit of a hinge a

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little bit of a hook to hook something on so we come to new orleans and given the whole history of

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the south in terms of racism and certainly bigotry it's not so far out the pale for someone to say

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i knew it you see this proves everything so in that sense yes it's always hooked into some no matter how

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fleeting it may be some element of fact and in the case of hurricane katrina the government may in a way

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have caused the levies to fail but more because of neglect than nefarious design those levies are made

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of everything they're made of sticks and mud uh bricks uh concrete everything but the kitchen sink

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was thrown out there over time trying to build up some sort of wall to keep the flood waters out during

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the spring rains in the mississippi river in the floods and also during storms but we don't really

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have a really engineered levy system hurricane katrina isn't the first disaster to provoke conspiracy

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theories soon after the cataclysmic tsunami of 2004 a popular rumor suggested underwater weapons

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testing by india the u.s and israel caused the massive earthquake that sparked the tsunami once again

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experts aren't buying this scenario indian ocean tsunami of last year was just the normal process

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that the earth is doing is it rearranges the continents and the islands and the oceans and

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those things are predictable they happen human beings need to recognize that these these really

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energetic geophysical events rare they may be once a generation but you know they're coming

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but no matter what the experts say it seems there will never be a shortage of conspiracy theories

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even though it may be as cockamamie even though it may be as far-fetched even though it may be

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just so far over the top that nobody that's got really half a brain is going to pay any attention

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to this or give it any kind of credibility or credence but as we well know there are thousands perhaps

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millions of people certainly legions of people that deeply believe there's always conspiracies

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behind everything and they will go to the barricades and they to their dying day saying

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you see i know i'm right what makes you right there's a presumption that the people engaged in

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the conspiracy are smarter than one is more powerful than one is more perfectly able to cover the tracks

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than any person we know ever could do and then finally the question is who are such people

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who are such people and if they have that capacity why are they settling for such a punk thing as a

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conspiracy all these theories may just add to our anxiety there's some evidence that when there are

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disasters that take place if people are convinced that they're man-made they're even more deeply

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troubled and affected by them than if they believe that they're natural disasters the idea of a mad

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genius controlling the weather may seem laughable but the truth is scientists have been trying to

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manipulate our climate for years in the 1960s there was a project called project storm fury and the object of

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förmed basically it's the NFL trying to keep it from working to protect the state immunity of Kreweather playing

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noticing this case of America's playoffensive and that's not going to happen

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for years together as the internet

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