Consensus Trance

by Paul Bondarovski et al.

  1988–2001. The New York City Administration for Children’s Services begins allowing foster care children living in about two dozen children’s homes to be used in National Institutes of Health-sponsored (NIH) experimental AIDS drug trials. These children—totaling 465 by the program’s end—experience serious side effects, including inability to walk, diarrhea, vomiting, swollen joints and cramps.

  1990. The United States sends 1.7 million members of the armed forces, 22% of whom are African-American, to the Persian Gulf for the Gulf War (“Desert Storm”). More than 400,000 of these soldiers are ordered to take an experimental nerve agent called pyridostigmine, which is later believed to be the cause of Gulf War Syndrome—symptoms ranging from skin disorders, neurological disorders, incontinence, uncontrollable drooling and vision problems—affecting Gulf War veterans.

  The CDC and Kaiser Pharmaceuticals of Southern California inject 1,500 six-month-old black and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles with an “experimental” measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the U.S. Adding to the risk, children less than a year old may not have an adequate amount of myelin around their nerves, possibly resulting in impaired neural development because of the vaccine. The CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected into their children was experimental.

  The FDA allows the U.S. Department of Defense to waive the Nuremberg Code and use unapproved drugs and vaccines in Operation Desert Shield.

  1991. In the May 27 issue of the Los Angeles Times, former U.S. Navy radio operator Richard Jenkins writes that he suffers from leukemia, chronic fatigue and kidney and liver disease as a result of the radiation exposure he received in 1958’s Operation Hardtack.

  While participating in a UCLA study that withdraws schizophrenics off of their medication, Tony LaMadrid commits suicide.

  1992. Columbia University’s New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine give 100 males—mostly African-American and Hispanic, all between the ages of 6 and 10 and all the younger brothers of juvenile delinquents—10 milligrams of fenfluramine (fen-fen) per kilogram of body weight in order to test the theory that low serotonin levels are linked to violent or aggressive behavior. Parents of the participants received $125 each, including a $25 Toys ‘R’ Us gift certificate.

  1993. Researchers at the West Haven VA in Connecticut give 27 schizophrenics—12 inpatients and 15 functioning volunteers—a chemical called MCPP that significantly increases their psychotic symptoms and, as researchers note, negatively affects the test subjects on a long-term basis.

  1994. In a double-blind experiment at New York VA Hospital, researchers take 23 schizophrenic inpatients off of their medications for a median of 30 days. They then give 17 of them 0.5 mg/kg amphetamine and six a placebo as a control, following up with PET scans at Brookhaven Laboratories. According to the researchers, the purpose of the experiment was “to specifically evaluate metabolic effects in subjects with varying degrees of amphetamine-induced psychotic exacerbation.”

  Researchers at Bronx VA Medical Center recruit 28 schizophrenic veterans who are functioning in society and give them L-dopa in order to induce psychotic relapse.

  1995. A 19-year-old University of Rochester student named Nicole Wan dies from participating in an MIT-sponsored experiment that tests airborne pollutant chemicals on humans. The experiment pays $150 to human test subjects.

  In Dr. Daniel P. van Kammen’s study, “Behavioral vs. Biochemical Prediction of Clinical Stability Following Haloperidol Withdrawal in Schizophrenia,” researchers recruit 88 veterans who are stabilized by their medications enough to make them functional in society, and hospitalize them for 8 to 10 weeks. During this time, the researchers stop giving the veterans the medications that are enabling them to live in society, placing them back on a two to four-week regimen of the standard dose of Haldol. Then the veterans are “washed-out,” given lumbar punctures and put under six-week observation to see who would relapse and suffer symptomatic schizophrenia once again; 50 percent do.

  President Clinton “apologizes” to the thousands of people who were victims of MKULTRA and other mind control programs.

  1996. Professor Adil E. Shamoo of the University of Maryland and the organization Citizens for Responsible Care and Research send a written testimony on the unethical use of veterans in medical research to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Governmental Affairs, stating: “This type of research is ongoing nationwide in medical centers and VA hospitals supported by tens of millions of dollars of taxpayers money. These experiments are high risk and are abusive, causing not only physical and psychic harm to the most vulnerable groups, but also degrading our society’s system of basic human values. Probably tens of thousands of patients are being subjected to such experiments.”

  The Department of Defense admits that Gulf War soldiers were exposed to chemical agents. However, 33 percent of all military personnel afflicted with Gulf War Syndrome never left the United States during the war, discrediting the popular mainstream belief that these symptoms are a result of exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons.

  In a federally funded experiment at West Haven VA in Connecticut, Yale University researchers give schizophrenic veterans amphetamine, even though central nervous system stimulants worsen psychotic symptoms in 40 percent of schizophrenics.

  1997. National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) researchers give schizophrenic veterans amphetamine, even though central nervous system stimulants worsen psychotic symptoms in 40 percent of schizophrenics.

  In an experiment sponsored by the U.S. government, researchers withhold medical treatment from HIV-positive African-American pregnant women, giving them a placebo rather than AIDS medication.

  Researchers give amphetamine to 13 schizophrenic patients in a repetition of the 1994 “amphetamine challenge” at New York VA Hospital. As a result, the patients experience psychosis, delusions and hallucinations.

  1999. Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania inject 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger with an experimental gene therapy as part of an FDA-approved clinical trial. He dies 4 days later.

  During a clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of Propulsid for infant acid reflux, nine-month-old Gage Stevens dies at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh.

  2000. The Department of Defense begins declassifying the records of Project 112, including SHAD, and locating and assisting the veterans who were exposed to live toxins and chemical agents as part of Project 112. Many of them have already died.

  The U.S. Air Force and rocket maker Lockheed Martin sponsor a Loma Linda University study that pays 100 Californians $1,000 to eat a dose of perchlorate—a toxic component of rocket fuel that causes cancer, damages the thyroid gland and hinders normal development in children and fetuses—every day for six months. The dose eaten by the test subjects is 83 times the safe dose of perchlorate set by the State of California, which has perchlorate in some of its drinking water. This Loma Linda study is the first large-scale study to use human subjects to test the harmful effects of a water pollutant.

  2001. Healthy 27-year-old Ellen Roche dies in a challenge study at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

  During a tobacco industry-financed Alzheimer’s experiment at Case Western University in Cleveland, Elaine Holden-Able dies after she drinks a glass of orange juice containing a dissolved dietary supplement.

  Radiologist Scott Scheer of Pennsylvania dies from kidney failure, severe anemia, and possibly lupus—all caused by blood pressure drugs he was taking as part of a five-year clinical trial.

  Published in issue 8 of The Dot Connector Magazine

  (March-April 2010).

  Secret Weather Wars

  By Jerry E. Smith (1950–2010)

  “If man can modify the weather, he will obviously modify it for military purposes. It is no coincidence that the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Signal Corps have been deeply involved in weather modification research and development. Weather is a weapon, and the general w
ho has control over the weather is in control of an opponent less well armed… The idea of clobbering an enemy with a blizzard, or starving him with an artificial drought, still sounds like science fiction. But so did talk of atom bombs before 1945.” So wrote author Daniel S. Halacy, Jr., in his book, The Weather Changers, published in 1968.

  Modern scientific attempts to control the weather began with Bernard Vonnegut’s discovery in 1946 that microscopic crystals of silver iodide (AgI) nucleate water vapor to form ice crystals. His breakthrough invention of a practical way of generating tiny AgI particles to serve as nuclei for ice crystals led to the modern practice of cloud seeding. More than fifty years later his method continues to be the most common. Control of the weather, at least to some degree, is today an established and expanding field of scientific and commercial endeavor across North America and around the world.

  Uncle Sam’s Disappearing Federal Budget Trick

  Mankind has always had a keen interest in the weather. Throughout human history we have seen the effects of weather on crops, and the loss of life and property through the violence of storms. In ancient times people made sacrifice to the gods in a crude attempt at influencing the weather. In many parts of the world today people still conduct elaborate rituals for rain and fertility.

  The modern interest in making rain for profit and/or the public good began, surprisingly enough, following the American Civil War. A large volume of literature on the subject was generated between 1890 and 1894 alone. Martha B. Caldwell in her article “Some Kansas Rain Makers,” published in the Kansas Historical Quarterly in August of 1938, summed up much of this material. She wrote:

  These writers had various theories as to the methods of producing rain. A French author suggested using a kite to obtain electrical connections with the clouds. James P. Espy, a meteorologist from Pennsylvania, proposed the method of making rain by means of fires. This idea is prevalent on the Western Plains where the saying, “A very large prairie fire will cause rain,” has almost become a proverb. The Indians on the plains of South America were accustomed to setting fire to the prairies when they wanted rain. A third method, patented by Louis Gathman in 1891, was based on the supposition that sudden chilling of the upper atmosphere by releasing compressed gases would cause rapid evaporation and thus produce rain. One of the oldest theories of producing artificial rain is known as the concussion theory, or that of generating moisture by great explosions. The idea originated from the supposition that heavy rains follow great battles. Gen. Daniel Ruggles of Fredericksburg, Va., obtained a patent on the concussion theory in 1880, and urged congress to appropriate funds for testing it.

  By 1890, the subject of artificial rain making had attained considerable dignity; two patents had been issued and through the efforts of Sen. C. B. Farwell, Congress had made appropriations, $2,000 first, and then $7,000, to carry on experiments. In 1892 an additional appropriation of $10,000 was made to continue the work. The carrying out of these experiments naturally fell to the Department of Agriculture, and the Secretary selected R. G. Dryenforth to conduct them. In 1891, Mr. Dryenforth with his assistants proceeded to the “Staked Plains of Texas” to begin work. Included in the equipment which he took with him were sixty-eight explosive balloons, three large balloons for making ascensions, and material for making one hundred cloth-covered kites, besides the necessary explosives, etc. He used the explosives both on the ground and in the air. An observer stated that “it was a beautiful imitation of a battle.” The balloons filled with gas were exploded high in the atmosphere. After a series of experiments carried on in different parts of Texas over a period of two years, his conclusions were to the effect that under favorable conditions precipitation may be caused by concussion, and that under unfavorable conditions “storm conditions may be generated and rain be induced, there being, however, a wasteful expenditure of both time and material in overcoming unfavorable conditions.”

  Twenty thousand dollars in 1890 would have the purchasing power of about a quarter million today. Over the next eighty years, Congress maintained an on again, off again interest in funding this research. One notable expenditure occurred in 1967, when the U.S. Senate passed the Magnusson Bill authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to accelerate programs of applied research, development and experimentation in weather and climate modification. That bill allocated $12 million, $30 million, and $40 million over the next three years, respectively. They projected expenditures of some $149 million annually by 1970.

  It can be argued that, by the beginning of the 1970s, portions of the U.S. government and/or military viewed weather and climate modification research as having transitioned from the “basic research” stage to the “operational” stage. Experiments were occurring—or had occurred—in 22 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Italy, France, South Africa, Congo, and the U.S.S.R. Airborne seeding programs were undertaken to combat drought in the Philippines, Okinawa, Africa, and Texas. Fog clearing had become a standard operation at airports, as had hailstorm abatement, which had been proven successful in several parts of the world. Forest fire control had been carried out in Alaska, and watershed seeding was widely practiced, while lake storm snow redistribution was under extensive investigation. By 1973, there were over 700 degreed scientists and engineers in the U.S., whose major occupation was environmental modification (EnMod).

  And then it all changed. In 1978, the United States became a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (EnMod Convention, or EnMod for short). The EnMod Convention prohibits the use of techniques that would have widespread, long-lasting or severe effects through deliberate manipulation of natural processes and cause such phenomena as earthquakes, tidal waves and changes in climate and weather patterns.

  Independent journalist Keith Harmon Snow wrote a massive report entitled “Out of the Blue: Black Programs, Space Drones & The Unveiling of U.S. Military Offensives in Weather as a Weapon.” In it he tells us:

  In 1976, U.S. government officials outlined 50 experimental projects and 20 actual pilot programs costing upwards of $100 million over the next eight years.

  It was an explosive subject, up [through] the 1970s but, after 1977, EnMod interest seemed to disappear almost overnight. In other words, after decades of intense research and development, after billions of dollars of investment, after major institutions and governmental bodies were created and charged with oversight of EnMod and its many peripheral issues, and after the entire reorganization of the U.S. government to channel and guide and map out the future of this new and promising military and civilian “technology”—said to be more important than the atom bomb—everything stopped.

  Or did it? It was as if a huge curtain fell over the subject as all research, all institutional interests, huge salaries and thousands of jobs—vanished. And the mass media stopped reporting anything and everything as if struck by plague. That—sudden and total silence—is perhaps the most telling and suspicious indication of the secrecy and denial that the EnMod arena was shackled with. Today it is almost as if it never happened.

  Could it be that the U.S. government said, “Oh gee, we can’t do that any more,” and just gave up on military EnMod—or did the whole program go “black”?

  Project Popeye

  The American military-industrial-academic complex early on recognized the importance of weather as a weapon. After the great battles of the Civil War it was noted that rains seems to follow. A General patented an idea for making rain from this observation, but it would take nearly eighty years for a technology to be developed that was GI friendly. The Battle for Britain was partially won because Allied forces successfully used a fog-dispersal system known as FIDO to enable aircraft takeoff and landing under otherwise debilitating fog conditions. Cold fogs were similarly dissipated during the Korean War. Cloud seeding became a weapon in Vietnam under Project Popeye.

  Project Popeye is a now expos
ed and proven conspiracy on the part of the military to circumvent the laws of humanity in time of war using environmental modification as a weapon—and to keep this secret, the Secretary of Defense was forced to lie to Congress.

  Project Popeye was originally conducted as a pilot program in 1966. It was an attempt to extend the monsoon season in Southeast Asia with the goal of slowing traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail by seeding clouds above it in hopes of producing impassable mud. Over the course of the program, silver iodide was dispersed from C-130s, F4 Phantoms and the Douglas A-1E Skyraider (a single-engine propeller-driven fighter-bomber) into clouds over portions of the trail winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam. Positive results from the initial test led to continued operations from 1967 through 1972.

  Some scientists believe that it did hamper North Vietnamese operations, even though the effectiveness of this program is still in dispute. In 1978, after the efforts at cloud seeding in Vietnam produced mixed results, the U.S. Air Force declared its position to be that “weather modification has little utility as a weapon of war.” Recent military publications indeed have stated quite the opposite. For example, the U.S. Air Force’s own Air University’s “SpaceCast 2020” contained a section on Counterforce Weather Control for force enhancement, which pointed out that:

  Atmospheric scientists have pursued terrestrial weather modification in earnest since the 1940s, but have made little progress because of scientific, legal, and social concerns, as well as certain controls at various government levels. Using environmental modification techniques to destroy, damage, or injure another state are prohibited. However, space presents us with a new arena, technology provides new opportunities, and our conception of future capabilities compels a reexamination of this sensitive and potentially risky topic.