As self appointed Senses  conspiracy expert I tentatively choose to embark on this post. While we try to focus on topics of professional interest and of some impact to the industry in which we work Hugo Chavez has once again blown my mind and I can’t resist. A major catastrophe has just occurred in a country that has been spiraling out of control, bandaged and taped together by foreign aid for decades. At a time when compassion and cooperation is needed most from all countries capable of helping Haiti,  a world leader takes an opportunity to suggest (thanks to an unconfirmed report from Russia’s Northern Fleet) that the United States, using top-secret technology, caused the earthquake to prepare for an invasion of Iran. Chavez should be ashamed, though something tells me an ego of his stature leaves little room for shame.

The idea allegedly put forth by Russia’s Northern Fleet and espoused by Chavez is that the U.S. has been using its HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) Which according to the official government site is “…to further advance our knowledge of the physical and electrical properties of the Earth’s ionosphere which can affect our military and civilian communication and navigation systems” This program has been in operation since 1990 and is a favorite of conspiracy theorists, though it has been overshadowed somewhat by the CERN Large Hadron Collider and its massive space-time fabric ripping experiments. In both cases these are highly advanced technologies employing highly advanced theoretical and applied knowledge, and as the old adage goes “People fear what they don’t understand”

We don’t understand the experiments being done at HAARP and CERN’s Hadron Collider so they must be inherently evil and created to control/destroy/enslave us as they are also funded and supported by the Government…another thing we don’t understand. The logic is relatively straight forward.

If we don’t understand advanced economic theory we like to say the World Bank, IMF and United Nations are enslaving the planet intentionally with debt. If we don’t understand how a disease like AIDS can have no cure we blame the US military for inventing it for population control reasons. (or big pharma or someone else) If we don’t understand why Haiti, a country suffering for so long, can be hit with a devastating earthquake we can conveniently blame the US (again of course) and their experiment in Alaska that focuses on ionic phenomena in our atmosphere. Look closely, there must be a connection.  This is fine and dandy for regular paranoid blue collar guys, but when heads of state are talking like this I think we pass a threshold of acceptable conduct.

Technology is arguably the most important and distinguishing thing that separates us from our animal cousins. Yes many other animals use tools, sea otters use rocks, birds use twigs and twine, ravens have proven themselves able to problem-solve with tools as well, but when we’re talking about experiments to recreate the big bang, experiments directing energy through and off of the ionosphere I think we definitely demonstrate a uniquely ambitious trait to understand the construct of our reality- and the rough edges where it may end. But I would prefer to leave that to scientists and philosophers and have the politicians focus their mental energies on more constructive things. What international politics needs more than anything is sanity, and Chavez loves to inject a huge dose of anything but into the mix.

Here are a few thoughts off the top of my head as to why his comments are completely absurd and why thinking like this is potentially very dangerous when considering the future of our already strained geopolitics.

1) Earthquakes happen all the time firstly. It’s not like a major earthquake happened in the middle of some precambrian shield in some highly unlikely place; although intra-plate earthquakes are also possible. Haiti and all the Caribbean countries lie on a complex series of plates and faults. Chavez is an idiot.

2) While earthquakes can be caused by damming of rivers and underground nuclear explosions, the suggestion that HAARP can somehow create earthquakes is a stretch. Video footage shows strange aural clouds over China before a major earthquake struck there in 2008 but before a quake happens it is common for large amounts of gaseous vapors trapped beneath the surface to escape. In fact, Japanese seismologists have successfully predicted earthquakes (though not by any usable amount of time for public safety) by monitoring levels of gas like Radon, looking for spikes in the air. Gasses, as we know, can affect how light passes between a source (say the Sun) and our brains. There were no reported auras or crazy lights and colours around Haiti before this quake anyhow which would help relate it to the supposed HAARP induced quake in China. Chavez is a moron.

3) As far as the middle east is concerned, the United States knows that its greatest asset in Iran are the Iranian people within the country itself. Iran is not just full of Islamic Fundamental extremists, in fact they are the minority. Killing hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians, many of whom are engaged in political and social activism in a massive earthquakes is likely the last possible thing the US would want. Chavez (and the person who made the alledged Northern Fleet report) are clearly just stirring the pot. A little critical thinking goes a long way.

Why is this dangerous? Because people BELIEVE this stuff. Iran will have another earthquake, possibly in the near future. In fact there is a 100% Iran will have earthquakes. The next time an earthquake occurs we now potentially have an army of paranoid idiots convinced that the US is about to invade the country, which is also unlikely because its troops are preoccupied in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Haiti.  The next time there’s a tsunami, it’s the US and their newfangled all purpose natural disaster creating HAARP. A hurricane, it’s the US and their newfangled all purpose natural disaster creating HAARP.

If this kind of talk enters the mainstream, as it clearly has, it becomes dangerous. It’s already easy enough for battered teens living in Kabul and Baghdad to blame the US for their woes, now being told by a celebrated world leader (oh yes he’s celebrated in some countries) that natural disasters befalling their countries are caused by deliberate efforts of the U.S. through its own advanced and misunderstood technologies is just fuel for an already paranoid firestorm.  Stoking the flames of paranoia in the world is the last thing any world leader should be doing. Once again I stress my belief that we need sanity, clarity, cooperation and critical thinking from our leaders.  Leave the science to the scientists Chavez and leave the paranoid delusions to the rest of us.

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