Forensic arborist Robert Brame presents his photographic evidence that, in nearly all those California fires, what burned hell-hot was NOT the forests but the GROUND, the soil left forever STERILE
Jun 12, 2023·edited Jun 12, 2023Liked by Mark Crispin Miller
Correct. Here additional proof.
DEW weapons: The proof is in the timing and damage....
In the past years Fire Captain John Lord speaks out about the recent California wildfires(2017/2018) and explains how the fires could not have been created naturally.
Highly Decorated Fire Captain John Lord speaks out about the possible directed energy weapons used to start over 16 major fires that began in the middle of the night in Napa/Sonoma/Mendocino Counties.
Fire Captain Lord says that based on his 30 years of experience, Directed Energy Weapons seem like the only plausible explanation for the rapidity of the fires’ spread and the extremely high temperatures, adding, “The holes that were burned through the hoods of cars all the way through the engine blocks are a little bit suspicious.”
The fires spread to over 16 locations at the same time, and even crossed an eight-lane highway before burning down an entire Kmart store in just hours. Cars were found melted. Houses were found “dustified.
Drone footage of fire damage in Santa Rosa | Los Angeles Times | Buildings and Cars Destroyed – Trees and Plastic Items Untouched.
Even the head of Cal Fire for the state said on CNN he had no idea what started the over 60 strikes that came out of nowhere in the middle of the night without warning. Sudden, unexplainable winds kicked up to 60-70 mph, blue flashes and sparks were seen above by many, including me. Cars were torched, yet trees untouched. Homes were reduced to unrecognizable rubble….
Explained: Unburned trees next to burned down structures as ...
Why do houses burn but trees remain? I believe we were told these were wildfires?
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Excerpt from the document Technology Horizons discussing Directed Energy Weapons: “The document “Air Force Directed-Energy Systems Laser-based and high-power, microwave-based DE systems being developed by several nations will play an important role in the strategic context of 2010–30. The success of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) in tracking, targeting, and destroying a representative missile in February 2010 with an integrated, airborne, megawatt-class chemical laser demonstrated the potential of strategic-scale systems. Ground-based lasers are likely to appear for air defense and other roles, as will airborne microwave-based systems that can disable or defeat electronic systems.
More recent solid-state laser technologies are enabling tactical-scale systems for potentially revolutionary airborne self-defense and low-collateral-damage strike capabilities. Emerging fiber laser technologies as well as diode-pumped alkali lasers may allow later versions of such systems to be made even smaller for integration in a much wider set of platforms, including fighters. DE systems will be among the key “game changing” technology-enabled capabilities that enter service during this time frame.” read more…PDF of the book “Full Spectrum Dominance”:
Now that I have stopped crying for the time being, my rage is growing. Because of who I am, I struggle to understand how people could be so ruthless, so megalomanical, so anti-life. It is my belief in a supreme being (or God, if you prefer) and good people like you, Mark, and those who support you, that my hope for us all has not completely been extinguished (pun definitely intended).
I think what makes you different from your university colleagues, and had made me different from mine (retired) is that we are willing to be curious, skeptical and look at darkness. It's weird how strong the normalacy bias is in our supposed intellectual and critical thinking colleagues! Keep up the great work!
Jun 12, 2023·edited Jun 12, 2023Liked by Mark Crispin Miller
Context:
Geoengineering is the crown jewel of the Military Industrial Complex. It is in the public record and laws that have instructed the MS Media to never mention it.
The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far
worse than your darkest visions and fears.'
– Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
********************************
'The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes' *
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Every aspect of our weather is being altered and manipulated by geoengineering programs, including hurricanes / cyclones. Radio frequency / microwave transmission installations have been and are a core component of the ongoing global climate engineering operations.
Ionospheric Heaters and atmospheric resonance technology
Most government models have their parameters tuned to what they think they should be or the outcome they want. One can have models to s anything you want., The Art and Science of Climate Model Tuning in Science magazine. A House of cards built on sand. See: Frédéric Hourdin Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, IPSL, CNRS, UPMC, Paris, France
For anyone doubting the existence of the phenomenon of geoengineering/weather modification, please take a minute to read through this extensive list of patents from America on equipment and processes used in just such programs. The evidence is clear.
Map of U.N. Tracking Weather Modification Projects (1952-1999)
When moisture laden storms are saturated with artificial/chemical ice nucleating elements (due to the destructive attempt by the climate engineers to temporarily cool-down ground temperatures on the ground), storms that would have been a deluge of rain become unprecedented onslaughts of frozen precipitation.
Chemical ice nucleation cloud seeding processes are a primary component of the ongoing and expanding global climate engineering operations. The numerous forms of frozen material have characteristics that are very different from anything a naturally occurring weather scenario would yield. Artificially nucleated “snow” is often 15 to 20 degrees colder than the surrounding air temperatures which can and often do cause this material to stick to whatever it comes in contact with.
Further, climate engineered chemical cloud seeding cool-downs are commonly commenced at atmospheric temperatures far above the point where natural ice nucleation would take place. The warmer air temperatures mean that the atmosphere is carrying more overall moisture which produces a heavy wet “snow”. The combination of factors mentioned, when combined with already weakened forests, is disastrous.
The short video below provides a shocking example of the utter devastation the weather makers are inflicting on our last remaining forests with chemical ice nucleation engineered winter weather events.
How are the engineered Eastern US cool-downs achieved? The "ridiculously resilient ridge" (RRR) heat dome of ionosphere heater created high pressure (over the US West) effectively blocking any inflow of storms and moisture into the western US. Any and all moisture flowing east from the Pacific is pushed around the clockwise rotating RRR. The NOAA "departure from normal precipitation" map below reflects the US "scheduled" weather for November. Notice the extremely anomalous below normal rain bullseye over Northern California, this dry zone is a direct result of the factors just described.
Agenda 21 signed (not "ratified") by 156 countries in Rio de Janeiro June 1992.
The main goal of this "environmental" international conference was the OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OVER ALL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ON EARTH BY THE PHARMACEUTICAL AND EMERGING BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES.
Redefined biodiversity as GENETIC CODES.
"This implicitly equates the diversity of ALL life on the planet, all plants and all animals to THE DIVERSITY OF GENETIC CODES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AS ESSENTIAL FOR THE CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF ALL BIODIVERSITY ON THE PLANET."
Longtime Alaskan Begich family - the author of Angels Don't Play This Haarp', Nick Begich, whose father died in a small plane in 1972 with Pentagon Papers holder and House majority leader Hale Boggs. Youngest - and dissenting - member of the Warren Commission and father of Cokie Roberts.
Thank you for going there. I followed the Paradise and Santa Rosa fires very closely. Pacific Gas and Electric was doing suspicious smart meter and other work just prior, gale force winds came out of nowhere, and military personnel pre-positioned. I saw vids from the day after where metal was melted but plastic trashcans unscathed. Microwaves and more at work. We are under attack.
Years ago I watched General Hospital, there was some token bad guy, Soros type that was inventing the weather machine. We used to laugh at such a ridiculous storyline. Not so funny now. Odd how Hollywood predicts so much of the future.
During the CA 'wildfires' there was video available showing blue light lasers coming from above, hitting items on the surface, which would erupt with white-hot flame. There was also video showing effects of microwave on plants, plastics, and common building materials. Someone also had posted radar screen capture showing three objects taking off from military sites, and hovering just above ignition sites. They also posted pictures of the US military drone that uses a laser mounted in front.
As Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "He who controls the weather rules the world." 18,000 dairy cows die in an explosion in Texas blamed on too much methane gas buildup (never heard of that before!); 10,000 Angus beef cattle drop dead all at once in Nebraska - blamed on the heat (only in the 80s) - farmers said that was very unusual even in very hot weather only one or two cows would die from heat; this morning, hundreds of thousands of fish wash up on a Texas beach dead -- being blamed on a "heat wave" which one commenter who lives in the area said isn't true, not that hot yet. DEW? Most likely.
Fear-mongering for sure! People don't look at the science -- a fraction of a degree increase in surface temperature isn't going to kill 10,000 beef cows or hundreds of thousands of fish -- but it will definitely disrupt our food supply. See the USDA's report about a coming food shortage. This is NOT an accident folks, This is a continuation of the "plandemic" meant to reduce the population of the US by at least 100 million people. This is starting to be serious warfare.
It was set. This is to do a land grab is my guess eventually of citizen owned property all over the world. Assholes. Incidentally I learned about Lucie and Michael Grimm's obstacle on your site. If he makes it and he will, I plan to become one of his producers for his next album. He's fantastic and so is she....but no one is saying anything about f'ing Covid shot. He was really sick with Covid at one point and then got the vaccine. Why I will never understand. Lying POS doctors
Thank you for writing about this. I learnt about DEWs 3 years ago but when you mention them to most people here, they think you’re mad. (That’s for almost everything I bring up... I live in one of the most insane cities in the US. 🤪)
from The Virginia Project "If anyone has equipment for air quality testing, we really need to know what's going on. This is NOT the smell of a wildfire. Current working hypothesis: that 30 tons of stolen ammonia nitrate was taken to Canada to start these fires." Reply from Clandestine: "Forest fires are another Deep State money laundering scheme of a different flavour. They create the fires, the gov allocates tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster relief, the money disappears, the politicians get their kickbacks, rinse, repeat. Same playbook."
When I was watching the media images last week, I thought I was looking at a controlled burn, perhaps a measure to stop the fires. After many many news stories I finally realized those *were* the fires.
I'm not an arborist, nor a fire expert. But I grew up around family farms, and recently moved to a rural area surrounded by farms. I know what a controlled burn looks like for clearing fields. And that's what many of these fires looked like to me. I have no explanation though, and don't like speculation.
They keep saying they were lighting strikes, and if that's true, they should have that data at their fingertips through various weather monitoring programs and satellite imagery. I'm confounded why there is no massive international investigation.
Correct. Here additional proof.
DEW weapons: The proof is in the timing and damage....
In the past years Fire Captain John Lord speaks out about the recent California wildfires(2017/2018) and explains how the fires could not have been created naturally.
Highly Decorated Fire Captain John Lord speaks out about the possible directed energy weapons used to start over 16 major fires that began in the middle of the night in Napa/Sonoma/Mendocino Counties.
Fire Captain Lord says that based on his 30 years of experience, Directed Energy Weapons seem like the only plausible explanation for the rapidity of the fires’ spread and the extremely high temperatures, adding, “The holes that were burned through the hoods of cars all the way through the engine blocks are a little bit suspicious.”
The fires spread to over 16 locations at the same time, and even crossed an eight-lane highway before burning down an entire Kmart store in just hours. Cars were found melted. Houses were found “dustified.
Drone footage of fire damage in Santa Rosa | Los Angeles Times | Buildings and Cars Destroyed – Trees and Plastic Items Untouched.
Even the head of Cal Fire for the state said on CNN he had no idea what started the over 60 strikes that came out of nowhere in the middle of the night without warning. Sudden, unexplainable winds kicked up to 60-70 mph, blue flashes and sparks were seen above by many, including me. Cars were torched, yet trees untouched. Homes were reduced to unrecognizable rubble….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQtDEa6wceE
https://shiftfrequency.com/dew-fires-not-wildfires/
https://christianobserver.net/were-directed-energy-weapons-involved-in-no-cal-fires/
https://wakeup-world.com/2019/02/21/yes-dew-and-laser-weapons-are-being-used-against-the-american-people/
The real issue has been Government made geoengineering.
Drone footage of fire damage in Santa Rosa | Los Angeles Times | Buildings and Cars Destroyed – Trees and Plastic Items Untouched. Proof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=505tkPvbeSM&feature=emb_logo
Explained: Unburned trees next to burned down structures as ...
Why do houses burn but trees remain? I believe we were told these were wildfires?
***********************
Excerpt from the document Technology Horizons discussing Directed Energy Weapons: “The document “Air Force Directed-Energy Systems Laser-based and high-power, microwave-based DE systems being developed by several nations will play an important role in the strategic context of 2010–30. The success of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) in tracking, targeting, and destroying a representative missile in February 2010 with an integrated, airborne, megawatt-class chemical laser demonstrated the potential of strategic-scale systems. Ground-based lasers are likely to appear for air defense and other roles, as will airborne microwave-based systems that can disable or defeat electronic systems.
More recent solid-state laser technologies are enabling tactical-scale systems for potentially revolutionary airborne self-defense and low-collateral-damage strike capabilities. Emerging fiber laser technologies as well as diode-pumped alkali lasers may allow later versions of such systems to be made even smaller for integration in a much wider set of platforms, including fighters. DE systems will be among the key “game changing” technology-enabled capabilities that enter service during this time frame.” read more…PDF of the book “Full Spectrum Dominance”:
http://christianobserver.net/documents/engdahl-full-spectrum-dominance.pdf
https://archive.org/details/william-engdahl-full-spectrum-dominance-274-pgs/page/n5/mode/2up
See more technology the US has in their possession here:
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/home/article/14180250/military-laser-weapons
https://www.thedrive.com/content/2017/06/kahdah5235.jpg?quality=85&width=1920&quality=70
What does the new world order warfare look like??
Weaponizing nature intentionally … against people.
- through fires
-manipulation of viruses
-GeoEngineering the weather
-releasing chemicals into the atmosphere
Destroying infrastructure-
-destroying animal processing plants that feed the population
-destroying food plants
-destroying natural gas plants
-Train derailments
-disruptions in plane travel
-blowing up bridges
I think we are at war, we’re just unaware.
Now that I have stopped crying for the time being, my rage is growing. Because of who I am, I struggle to understand how people could be so ruthless, so megalomanical, so anti-life. It is my belief in a supreme being (or God, if you prefer) and good people like you, Mark, and those who support you, that my hope for us all has not completely been extinguished (pun definitely intended).
I think what makes you different from your university colleagues, and had made me different from mine (retired) is that we are willing to be curious, skeptical and look at darkness. It's weird how strong the normalacy bias is in our supposed intellectual and critical thinking colleagues! Keep up the great work!
Context:
Geoengineering is the crown jewel of the Military Industrial Complex. It is in the public record and laws that have instructed the MS Media to never mention it.
The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far
worse than your darkest visions and fears.'
– Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
********************************
'The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes' *
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Every aspect of our weather is being altered and manipulated by geoengineering programs, including hurricanes / cyclones. Radio frequency / microwave transmission installations have been and are a core component of the ongoing global climate engineering operations.
Ionospheric Heaters and atmospheric resonance technology
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3032
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https://www.science.gov/topicpages/h/haarp+ionospheric+heater
ionospheric+heater
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https://vlfstanford.ku.edu.tr/research_topic_inlin/experiments-haarp-ionospheric-heater/
heater/
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https://worldwidescience.org/topicpages/m/mobile+ionospheric+heaters.html
Bomb Cyclones and Atmospheric Rivers: Is Someone Messing with the Weather?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bomb-cyclones-atmospheric-rivers-someone-messing-weather/5804879
They are actually making things worse, and creating problems. Geoengineering is happening, for example: China controlling rain across Tibet.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/10/geoengineering-will-happen-china-controlling-rain-across-tibet.html
52 other countries also engage in cloud seeding and weather modification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
Most government models have their parameters tuned to what they think they should be or the outcome they want. One can have models to s anything you want., The Art and Science of Climate Model Tuning in Science magazine. A House of cards built on sand. See: Frédéric Hourdin Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, IPSL, CNRS, UPMC, Paris, France
Source:
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00135.1
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3. For anyone doubting the existence of the phenomenon of geoengineering/weather modification, please follow the links for full documentation:
A. Geoengineering Programs and Weather Modification Experiments,
This article lists active geoengineering programs, proposals, experiments, field trials, and weather modification programs worldwide:
https://climateviewer.com/2013/10/06/geoengineering-programs-weather-modification-experiments/
B. Weather Modification Laws in the United States of America:
https://climateviewer.com/2016/05/14/weather-modification-laws-in-the-united-states-of-america/
c. Extensive list of Patents:
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/an-extensive-list-of-patents/
For anyone doubting the existence of the phenomenon of geoengineering/weather modification, please take a minute to read through this extensive list of patents from America on equipment and processes used in just such programs. The evidence is clear.
Map of U.N. Tracking Weather Modification Projects (1952-1999)
https://climateviewer.com/2019/10/03/map-of-united-nations-tracking-weather-modification-projects-1952-1999/
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#1 There’s Barium and Aluminum in jet exhaust
Take a look at the IPCC’s report and you will see confirmation that indeed barium and aluminum are indeed in the exhaust plumes of jets.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/aviation-and-the-global-atmosphere-2/?idp=35
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Aftermath Of Chemical Ice Nucleation
When moisture laden storms are saturated with artificial/chemical ice nucleating elements (due to the destructive attempt by the climate engineers to temporarily cool-down ground temperatures on the ground), storms that would have been a deluge of rain become unprecedented onslaughts of frozen precipitation.
Chemical ice nucleation cloud seeding processes are a primary component of the ongoing and expanding global climate engineering operations. The numerous forms of frozen material have characteristics that are very different from anything a naturally occurring weather scenario would yield. Artificially nucleated “snow” is often 15 to 20 degrees colder than the surrounding air temperatures which can and often do cause this material to stick to whatever it comes in contact with.
Further, climate engineered chemical cloud seeding cool-downs are commonly commenced at atmospheric temperatures far above the point where natural ice nucleation would take place. The warmer air temperatures mean that the atmosphere is carrying more overall moisture which produces a heavy wet “snow”. The combination of factors mentioned, when combined with already weakened forests, is disastrous.
The short video below provides a shocking example of the utter devastation the weather makers are inflicting on our last remaining forests with chemical ice nucleation engineered winter weather events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqqTnonMao
The Engineered Winter Deception, Chemical Ice Nucleation, And Ice Boulders
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/the-engineered-winter-deception-chemical-ice-nucleation/
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How are the engineered Eastern US cool-downs achieved? The "ridiculously resilient ridge" (RRR) heat dome of ionosphere heater created high pressure (over the US West) effectively blocking any inflow of storms and moisture into the western US. Any and all moisture flowing east from the Pacific is pushed around the clockwise rotating RRR. The NOAA "departure from normal precipitation" map below reflects the US "scheduled" weather for November. Notice the extremely anomalous below normal rain bullseye over Northern California, this dry zone is a direct result of the factors just described.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/governor-newsom-geoengineering-and-unprecedented-wildfires/
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https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-84.89,40.13,771/loc=-99.115,30.112
The genetic takeover of life on planet earth.
These two young environmental journalists were horrified enough to write a book about it at the time, which is no longer in print.
https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/TheEarthBrokers-1994.pdf
Agenda 21 signed (not "ratified") by 156 countries in Rio de Janeiro June 1992.
The main goal of this "environmental" international conference was the OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OVER ALL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ON EARTH BY THE PHARMACEUTICAL AND EMERGING BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES.
Redefined biodiversity as GENETIC CODES.
"This implicitly equates the diversity of ALL life on the planet, all plants and all animals to THE DIVERSITY OF GENETIC CODES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AS ESSENTIAL FOR THE CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF ALL BIODIVERSITY ON THE PLANET."
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1620325590556618753?cxt=HHwWgsDR2cXixvwsAAAA
Longtime Alaskan Begich family - the author of Angels Don't Play This Haarp', Nick Begich, whose father died in a small plane in 1972 with Pentagon Papers holder and House majority leader Hale Boggs. Youngest - and dissenting - member of the Warren Commission and father of Cokie Roberts.
https://www.abebooks.com/9780964881204/Angels-Play-Haarp-Advances-Tesla-0964881209/plp
Thank you for going there. I followed the Paradise and Santa Rosa fires very closely. Pacific Gas and Electric was doing suspicious smart meter and other work just prior, gale force winds came out of nowhere, and military personnel pre-positioned. I saw vids from the day after where metal was melted but plastic trashcans unscathed. Microwaves and more at work. We are under attack.
Years ago I watched General Hospital, there was some token bad guy, Soros type that was inventing the weather machine. We used to laugh at such a ridiculous storyline. Not so funny now. Odd how Hollywood predicts so much of the future.
During the CA 'wildfires' there was video available showing blue light lasers coming from above, hitting items on the surface, which would erupt with white-hot flame. There was also video showing effects of microwave on plants, plastics, and common building materials. Someone also had posted radar screen capture showing three objects taking off from military sites, and hovering just above ignition sites. They also posted pictures of the US military drone that uses a laser mounted in front.
As Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "He who controls the weather rules the world." 18,000 dairy cows die in an explosion in Texas blamed on too much methane gas buildup (never heard of that before!); 10,000 Angus beef cattle drop dead all at once in Nebraska - blamed on the heat (only in the 80s) - farmers said that was very unusual even in very hot weather only one or two cows would die from heat; this morning, hundreds of thousands of fish wash up on a Texas beach dead -- being blamed on a "heat wave" which one commenter who lives in the area said isn't true, not that hot yet. DEW? Most likely.
Fear-mongering for sure! People don't look at the science -- a fraction of a degree increase in surface temperature isn't going to kill 10,000 beef cows or hundreds of thousands of fish -- but it will definitely disrupt our food supply. See the USDA's report about a coming food shortage. This is NOT an accident folks, This is a continuation of the "plandemic" meant to reduce the population of the US by at least 100 million people. This is starting to be serious warfare.
It was set. This is to do a land grab is my guess eventually of citizen owned property all over the world. Assholes. Incidentally I learned about Lucie and Michael Grimm's obstacle on your site. If he makes it and he will, I plan to become one of his producers for his next album. He's fantastic and so is she....but no one is saying anything about f'ing Covid shot. He was really sick with Covid at one point and then got the vaccine. Why I will never understand. Lying POS doctors
Yes-
With regard to Canadian Fires:
No lightning (no clouds in fact)
The all suddenly appeared to start almost simultaneously.
Interesting Satellite photos of the forest fires starting in Canada
Click: (Or copy/paste)
https://www.tiktok.com/@philjermakian/video/7242032238307708203?embed_source=121352282%2C121351166%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%3Bnull%3Bembed_share&refer=embed&referer_url=www.armstrongeconomics.com%2Fworld-news%2Fconspiracy%2Fcanadian-wildfires-climate-lockdowns-begin%2F&referer_video_id=7242032238307708203
Mark, you are getting better and better! I just love your title for this article! :)
Of course, the whole scheme didn't start yesterday:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/geoengineering-entails-more-than
or even worse
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/bioweapons
Thank you for writing about this. I learnt about DEWs 3 years ago but when you mention them to most people here, they think you’re mad. (That’s for almost everything I bring up... I live in one of the most insane cities in the US. 🤪)
from The Virginia Project "If anyone has equipment for air quality testing, we really need to know what's going on. This is NOT the smell of a wildfire. Current working hypothesis: that 30 tons of stolen ammonia nitrate was taken to Canada to start these fires." Reply from Clandestine: "Forest fires are another Deep State money laundering scheme of a different flavour. They create the fires, the gov allocates tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster relief, the money disappears, the politicians get their kickbacks, rinse, repeat. Same playbook."
When I was watching the media images last week, I thought I was looking at a controlled burn, perhaps a measure to stop the fires. After many many news stories I finally realized those *were* the fires.
I'm not an arborist, nor a fire expert. But I grew up around family farms, and recently moved to a rural area surrounded by farms. I know what a controlled burn looks like for clearing fields. And that's what many of these fires looked like to me. I have no explanation though, and don't like speculation.
They keep saying they were lighting strikes, and if that's true, they should have that data at their fingertips through various weather monitoring programs and satellite imagery. I'm confounded why there is no massive international investigation.