As far as conspiracy theories go, I think this one only merits a “meh.”
US News and World Report is reporting that certain conspiracy theory websites are already jumping to conclusions about Hurricane Sandy and what caused the freak super storm. Global warming? HA! Don’t be a patsy say InfoWars.com, TheIntelHub.com, and ConsfearacyNewz: It’s all OBAMA’s fault and he engineered Sandy with the use of the nefarious High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, (HAARP):
HAARP, a research program managed by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, studies and conducts experiments relating to the ionosphere, or upper atmosphere. As NASA explains on its web site, the ionosphere is important because it often reflects radio waves and scatters GPS signals, leading to “a big impact on communications and navigation” on Earth.
Because of this, conspiracy theorists have blamed HAARP for a number of natural events over the years, saying the government uses the Alaska-based program to manipulate the weather with the help of electromagnetic waves.
On Friday, InfoWars published a story arguing that Sandy “will undoubtedly produce widespread chaos and present an ideal opportunity for Obama to come off as a strong and decisive leader.”
“Following the ‘perfect storm,’” wrote Infowars’ Kurt Nimmo, “the establishment media will naturally provide all the propaganda Obama needs to sweep the election on Tuesday, November 6, a week after the hurricane is projected to hit.”
As proof, Nimmo noted that HAARPStatus.com, a site that claims to detect frequency on the ionosphere, is reporting unprecedented levels of HAARP frequency above the Eastern coast. HAARPStatus.com appears to be a site not actually associated with HAARP.
Yeah, and their graphs are just Photo-shopped…
As someone who has closely studied the conspiracy theory subculture for many, many years, I put it to you that if it wasn’t even possible to hide a blow job in the Clinton White House, how easy would it be to orchestrate Hurricane Sandy and get away with it?
Michele Bachmann would expose it, right?
