Consider the following extract from the report: “The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented.”[71]
That one stark word alone—unprecedented—should give us at least some idea of how our world might radically change once oil goes belly-up.
The Tsunami in Japan
In the wake of the even more tragic events that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011—involving a pulverizing earthquake, a tsunami that provoked ocean waves of more than 120 feet, and a meltdown at the Fukushima 1 and Fukushima 2 Nuclear Power Plants that led to more than 12,000 deaths and a nation stunned into shock and disbelief — online conspiracy theorists expressed concern when 20,000 U.S. military personnel, 19 Naval craft, and 120 aircraft, via an operation called Tomodachi (friend, in Japanese), took a leading role in handling the crisis.
Once again, a theory was suggested that the friendly, humanitarian assistance was in reality a cover to allow U.S. forces to increase their presence in an area of the globe deemed to be of strategic and military value. And, said the same conspiracy theorists, what better way to subtly — and seemingly innocently — ensure one’s influence in an area of keen interest than via a selfless mission of mercy? If the conspiracy crowd were correct in their views on HAARP, could oil have been a motivating factor here, too?
As of 2010, Japan had state-controlled oil reserves in excess of 300 million barrels, and privately owned reserves that exceeded 120 million barrels. Interestingly, however, way back on February 21, 1922, the New York Times published an article titled “Experts Say Japan has 300 Years’ Oil,” with a subtitle of “Engineers Estimate that American Reserves will be Exhausted in 20 Years.” The newspaper quoted from a new report prepared for the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that, in part, said, “Considering her actual requirements, it appears that Japan is more fortunate than most nations in the possession of oil reserves in the future. Japan possesses much more oil than her propagandists have tried to make the world believe she has.”[72]
Of course, U.S. oil was not depleted by 1944, as the article alarmingly suggested it might be. And back in 1922 it would have been pretty much impossible to predict how Japan’s reliance on oil would increase, to the point where that 300-years scenario became utterly useless. Nevertheless, the idea that Japan may secretly possess far more oil than many have even begun to realize is, if nothing else, significant food for thought.
The worrying reality is that of the 21 largest oil fields on the planet, no less than nine are already in steady, irreversible decline. Finding new reserves of oil, and controlling access to those same reserves, may prove vital in determining the fate of whole countries as the decades progress. And just maybe, say some at least, HAARP is playing a fundamental role in a secret race for future survival; a future that, if not somehow averted, might see the lights forever extinguished, our oil-reliant vehicles utterly extinct, and civilization in chaos and savagery.
E.M. Fields
HAARP has also become the target of people who see its actions as being wholly nefarious in nature for another, very different reason, but no less disturbing in scope. Aside from the HAARP staff themselves, there is probably no one who knows more about the project — and the dark theories regarding what many accept that its personnel may really be doing — than Dr. Nick Begich, Jr., the son of Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska, Nicholas Joseph Begich, Sr., who was presumed killed when the Cessna 310 plane he was flying in on October 16, 1972 vanished without trace during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. Begich Jr.’s brother is Mark Begich, currently the junior U.S. Senator for the state of Alaska. As for Nick Begich, as well as having been twice elected President of the Alaska Federation of Teachers and the Anchorage Council of Education, he is the co-author, with Jeanne Manning, of the illuminating book Angels Don’t Play This Haarp, which is a deeply unsettling exposé of the HAARP program.
Begich said that whereas HAARP personnel are keen to impress upon people that the program is chiefly an academic project with the intent to alter the ionosphere to upgrade communications for our own benefit, there is another side to the story. He noted that as far back as 1996, the U.S. government had assigned no less than $15 million to HAARP to develop Earth- penetrating tomography, or imaging of the planet’s subsurface. The problem with all this, Begich said, is that “[the particular frequency required for] Earth-penetrating radiations is within the frequency range most cited for disruption of human mental functions. It may also have profound effects on migration patterns of fish and wild animals which rely on an undisturbed energy field to find their routes.”[73]
The U.S. Air Force — a central player in the HAARP program — has long been aware of these effects that Begich has warned about for years. One of many official USAF documents on such matters spells out the disturbing facts: “The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wide-ranging. Some of these potential uses include dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare. In all of these cases the EM (electromagnetic) systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. In addition, the ability of individuals to function could be degraded to such a point that they would be combat-ineffective.”[74]
That the work of HAARP may have significant, adverse side-effects on the human nervous system and psychological state is highly worrying. But there is another issue too. Begich’s discoveries that HAARP’s work could conceivably have adverse effects on the migratory routes of certain animals has led a number of commentators to suggest that the unsettling, planet-wide wave of bird and fish deaths that were heavily reported on by the world’s media in the latter part of 2010 and early 2011 were the result of wild and reckless HAARP operations.
It was during this clearly delineated period that literally hundreds of red-winged blackbirds were found dead in Louisiana, countless blackbirds met their deaths under unusual circumstances in Arkansas, and tens of thousands of fish turned up lifeless in the Arkansas River. On top of that, more than 50 Jackdaws were found dead, lying on the ground in Sweden; at least 200 birds of varying types were discovered on a Texas bridge; and no less than 40,000 devil crabs died under mysterious circumstances off the coast of England.
Some scientists and elements of officialdom struggled to place all the mystifying deaths into wholly down-to-earth categories — such as the rigors of nature, the extremes of weather, and man-made pollution — but others suggested this collectively pointed towards a looming apocalypse of Old Testament proportions. Some quietly — and more than a few not so quietly — suggested that HAARP was to blame. On this latter point, on January 5, 2011, Steve Cooper of the Conservative Monster Website published an article titled “Was HAARP Missile Defense Test Behind Massive Bird Deaths?” It was this paper that provoked a flurry of online debate about what HAARP was up to, and how our world faced potential collapse and destruction as a result of the crazed actions of an elite group of harebrained scientists up north.