Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 10:37 a.m. No.23295647   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5695 >>5808 >>5963 >>6087 >>6195

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/08/bidens-ex-doctor-cites-patient-privilege-seeks-fresh-delay-in-testimony-to-house-panel/

 

Biden’s ex-Doctor Cites Patient Privilege, Seeks Fresh Delay in Testimony to House Panel

 

Former President Joe Biden’s erstwhile personal physician wants to delay testifying before the House oversight committee, citing the need for an agreement that will respect doctor-patient confidentiality norms as part of the investigation into Biden’s physical and cognitive deterioration while in office.

 

AP reports Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who served as Biden’s physician at the White House, requested a delay until the end of July or early August “to reach an accommodation that will protect the very substantial privilege and confidentiality interests of Dr. O’Connor and former President Biden,” according to a letter from his lawyer sent to Rep. James Comer of Kentucky on Saturday.

 

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) subpoenaed O’Connor just last month in an effort to force him to publicly testify about what he knew and when he knew it, as Breitbart News reported.

 

AP obtained a copy of the letter to confirm the latest request for a delay. It further reported:

 

A spokesperson for Oversight Republicans said the committee will follow the House’s deposition guidelines, which allow for witnesses to assert privilege on a question-by-question basis, with the committee chair ruling on each claim.

 

But O’Connor is not allowed, in the committee’s view, to delay or decline a congressional subpoena due to concerns over questions about potentially privileged information.

 

The House Oversight Committee first requested O’Connor testify before the committee last July, but the Biden White House blocked his testimony.

 

Comer renewed his request in May and later subpoenaed the doctor in June.

 

As Breitbart News reported, the physical and mental state of Biden during his last years has long been a topic for debate.

 

Republican leaders, conservative commentators, and others unleashed a torrent of criticism following CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s admission in May the White House deceived the public about Biden’s ability to discharge his duties.

 

That deception many say was obvious and intentionally suppressed for political gain and done with the complicity of compliant media outlets.

Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 10:43 a.m. No.23295685   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5808 >>5963 >>6087 >>6195

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/07/08/he-is-not-guilty-of-anything-trump-tells-brazil-to-leave-bolsonaro-alone/

 

Trump Tells Brazil: ‘Leave Bolsonaro Alone… He Is Not Guilty of Anything’

 

President Donald Trump published a message on Monday in defense of longtime ally Jair Bolsonaro, who served as president of Brazil during Trump’s first term, accusing the Brazilian judiciary of doing a “terrible thing” by launching multiple criminal investigations against him and banning him from running for office.

 

Bolsonaro governed Brazil from 2018 to 2023, losing narrowly in the 2022 election to formerly imprisoned radical socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula, 79, is currently serving his third term as president, marked by a dramatic increase in politically motivated trials against Bolsonaro, his family, and his supporters. Aiding Lula’s legal campaigns against conservatives is the Brazilian top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), which has launched multiple violent raids and investigations against conservatives on allegation of spreading “fake news.” STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes, one of the court’s most prominent judges, began persecuting conservatives under the guise of fighting “fake news” during the Bolsonaro presidency and has since expanded his actions to target the former president himself.

 

Jair Bolsonaro initially faced three main criminal allegations: falsifying a coronavirus vaccine card to enter the United States in 2022; inappropriately keeping expensive jewelry gifted to Brazil by Saudi Arabia; and leading an attempted “coup” to oust the current leftist government including a plot to poison Lula. Bolsonaro, 70, is facing up to 39 years in prison on the “coup” charges alone.

 

Prosecutors moved in March to drop the vaccine card charges, but the other cases remain in vigor, and Bolsonaro is currently banned from running for any public office despite polls showing him in the lead for the 2026 presidential election.

 

Trump mentioned Bolsonaro’s positive polling and celebrated his presidency in his statement on Monday, published on his website, Truth Social.

 

“Brazil is doing a terrible thing on their treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro,” Trump wrote. “I have watched, as has the World, as they have done nothing but come after him, day after day, night after night, month after month, year after year!”

 

“He is not guilty of anything, except having fought for THE PEOPLE,” the president emphasized.

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Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 10:43 a.m. No.23295690   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5808 >>5963 >>6087 >>6195

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/07/08/he-is-not-guilty-of-anything-trump-tells-brazil-to-leave-bolsonaro-alone/

 

His Election was very close and now, he is leading in the Polls,” the statement continued. “This is nothing more, or less, than an attack on a Political Opponent — Something I know much about! It happened to me, times 10, and now our Country is the ‘HOTTEST’ in the World!”

 

Trump predicted that the Brazilian people “will not stand” for the judicial attacks on Bolsonaro and vowed to closely monitor the “WITCH HUNT” against the former president.

 

“The only Trial that should be happening is a Trial by the Voters of Brazil — It’s called an Election. LEAVE BOLSONARO ALONE!” he concluded.

 

Bolsonaro, writing on social media, expressed gratitude to President Trump and described himself as feeling “great joy” at his message.

 

“I overlapped with President Trump for two years in which we always defended the interests of our people and freedom for all,” Bolsonaro wrote. “This process to which I am being subjected is a judicial aberration (Lawfare), clear political persecution, already perceived by all with good sense.”

 

Bolsonaro acknowledged that Trump, “the illustrious president and friend… went through something similar” and was “implacably persecuted, but triumphed for the good of the United States and dozens of other truly democratic countries.”

 

“Thank you for existing and giving us an example of faith and resilience,” Bolsonaro concluded, addressing Trump.

 

Trump’s comment appeared to rankle Lula, who condemned “interference” in a rant on Monday without mentioning Trump or America by name.

 

“The defense of democracy in Brazil is a matter that concerns Brazilians,” Lula told reporters following Trump’s statement. “We are a sovereign country. We do not accept interference or lecturing from anyone. We possess solid and independent institutions.”

 

“Nobody is above the law — above all, those who threaten liberty or the state of rights,” Lula insisted.

 

Lula himself is president despite being banned from running for office after being found guilty through multiple appeals of corruption during his previous two terms as president. Lula was sentenced to over 25 years in prison in 2019 as part of a criminal investigation known as “Operation Car Wash,” which took down dozens of politicians found accepting bribes from corrupt contractors seeking overpriced contracts for government public works projects. Lula was found guilty of using some of the illicit money to buy a luxury beachfront property.

 

The STF, which is currently processing multiple cases against Bolsonaro, freed Lula in 2021 and allowed him to run for office again despite Brazilian law forbidding convicted criminals from holding public office. The STF argued that the original district court processing the Lula case, in the state of Curitiba, did not have jurisdiction over such a large case, but did not present any evidence exonerating Lula of the crimes for which he was repeatedly convicted.

 

While Lula did not mention Trump by name, one of his top cabinet officials, Institutional Relations Minister Gleisi Hoffmann, pointedly condemned the American president.

 

“Donald Trump is very mistaken if he thinks he can interfere in the Brazilian judicial process,” Hoffman railed. “The time when Brazil was subservient to the USA was the time of Bolsonaro, who saluted his flag and did not defend national interests.”

 

“One can’t talk about persecution when a sovereign country fulfills appropriate legal processes of the democratic state of laws, which Bolsonaro and his coup-plotters tried to destroy,” Hoffman accused. “The president of the USA should take care of his own problems, which are not few, and respect the sovereignty of Brazil and our judiciary.”

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Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 10:53 a.m. No.23295746   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5808 >>5963 >>6087 >>6195

go woke, go broke

 

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/08/superman-actor-sean-gunn-says-film-is-pro-immigrant-and-if-you-dont-like-that-youre-not-american/

 

‘Superman’ Actor Sean Gunn Says Film Is Pro-Immigrant ‘And if You Don’t Like that You’re Not American’

 

If you don’t like immigrants, then you are not American. That was actor Sean Gunn’s declaration when asked about the new superwoke Superman movie that casts its hero as an immigrant outsider.

 

Gunn plays Maxwell Lord in the film, according to IMDB.

 

The actor outlined his views as part of an interview Monday canvassing responses to the film which is directed by his brother James Gunn.

 

“We support ‘our people’ we love our immigrants, and yes Superman is an immigrant, and yes the people that we support in this country are immigrants, if you don’t like that then you are not American,” Gunn said.

 

“People who say no to immigrants are against the American way. That is what the American dream is all about.”

 

Gunn failed to note the U.S. admits roughly one million individuals annually for lawful permanent residence. In 2022, there were 2.6 million new authorized immigrant arrivals. Illegal immigrants have been known to double that figure.

 

He spoke to a Variety reporter:

 

Director James Gunn confirmed the upcoming Superman iteration will be “about politics,” saying the iconic superhero is “an immigrant that came from other places.”

 

“Superman is the story of America,” he told he Sunday Times in a recent interview. “An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me, it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”

 

Last week, the man who portrays the Man of Steel, actor David Corenswet, found himself unable to relay Superman’s slogan, and replaced “The American way” part of the saying with “and good things.”

 

The character of Superman, first introduced in 1938, was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster in Cleveland, Ohio.

 

In the comics as he first appeared, Superman is the sole survivor of the planet Krypton, sent to Earth by his parents as their world faced destruction.

Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 10:55 a.m. No.23295754   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.rt.com/news/621196-german-porsche-sales-drop/

 

German luxury car giant reports another major sales drop

Porsche’s global deliveries fell by 6% in the first half of the year, driven by a demand slump in China

 

German luxury sports car maker Porsche has reported a global sales drop in the first half of the year, citing the impact of stiff competition in China, according to a company statement on Tuesday.

 

Global deliveries fell by 6% compared to the same period in 2024, driven by a sharp 28% drop in the Asian country.

 

China has historically been a crucial market for Porsche. In 2022, it accounted for roughly 30% of the firm’s global sales. However, in 2023 deliveries started to decline, forcing the car maker to start closing dealerships in the country.

 

Porsche attributed the latest drop to “the challenging market conditions” and “intense competition” in China.

 

Domestic brands like Xiaomi have started gaining market share by offering high-performance electric vehicles at competitive prices.

 

Chinese automakers have also drastically shortened vehicle development cycles, allowing them to launch new models faster than global competitors. Companies like BYD and Chery have cut development times to as little as 18 months, compared to 5.4 years for foreign brands, Reuters reported earlier this month.

 

The US and the EU have responded with tariffs aimed at protecting their automotive industries, alleging that China unfairly subsidizes its carmakers. However, according to Reuters, it is the Chinese manufacturers’ development speed, rather than subsidies alone, that gives them a technological and cost advantage.

 

Germany, Porsche’s home market, also recorded a 23% decline, while the broader European market saw an 8% drop.

 

Germany’s economy shrank by 0.2% in 2024, following a 0.3% contraction in 2023. The downturn has been driven by high energy prices, elevated interest rates, a sluggish digital transformation, and a shortage of skilled labor, all of which have weighed on industries, including automotive manufacturing.

 

In contrast, Porsche’s sales in the United States rose 10% year-on-year. Anticipating a 25% import tariff on vehicles announced in March, the company accelerated shipments to beat the deadline, resulting in higher stock. North America, which includes the US and Canada, became Porsche’s largest sales region in 2024.

 

The emerging markets category also posted a 10% incre

Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 11:21 a.m. No.23295869   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://thelibertydaily.com/court-rejects-judge-hannah-dugans-claim-immunity-diverting/

 

Court Rejects Judge Hannah Dugan’s Claim for Immunity for Diverting ICE Agents, Freeing Illegal Alien Criminal

 

A ruling from U.S. Magistrate Nancy Joseph in Wisconsin has rejected Judge Hannah Dugan’s claim for absolute immunity for her actions in stopping her own court hearing, diverting ICE agents away from the adjacent hallway, sending them on an errand and then escorting a criminal illegal alien out of the courthouse through a nonpublic jury door.

 

The decision from the case that charges Dugan with federal crimes said, “Judges are not immune from criminal prosecution for acts wholly outside their official roles as judges.”

 

She explains, “The indictment alleges Dugan violated two federal statutes, 18U.S.C. §§ 1071 and 1505, and cites the respective statutory language for both. Whether Dugan violated these statutes as the government accuses, or whether she was merely performing her judicial duties as Dugan asserts, these are questions for a jury that cannot be resolved on a motion to dismiss.

 

“I recommend Dugan’s motion to dismiss on Tenth Amendment grounds be denied.”

 

Further, the ruling found Dugan’s attempt to obtain the dismissal of her indictment on constitutional avoidance grounds is “misplaced.”

 

“It is well-established and undisputed that judges have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits for monetary damages when engaging in judicial acts. This, however, is not a civil case. And review of the case law does not show an extension of this established doctrine to the criminal context.”

 

Applying established principles of immunity to Dugan’s case, the ruling determined: “Does judicial immunity shield Dugan from prosecution because the indictment alleges she violated federal criminal law while performing judicial duties? The answer is no. …There is no firmly established absolute judicial immunity barring criminal prosecution of judges for judicial acts.”

 

Dugan had argued as a state court judge acting within the scope of her official duties, prosecution is barred, she also is protected by the Tenth Amendment and the canon of constitutional avoidance.

 

She wrongly cited the Supreme Court’s ruling granted President Donald Trump differing levels of immunity based on official actions.

 

“While Dugan asserts that Trump simply extended to the president the same immunity from prosecution that judges already have, this argument makes a leap too far. Trump says nothing about criminal immunity for judicial acts.”

 

A grand jury accused Dugan of knowingly concealing a person for whose arrest a warrant and process had been issued, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1071. She is charged in Count Two with obstruction of the United States Department of Homeland Security’s removal proceedings, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1505.

 

The episode happened on April 18, when, according to the records, “Dugan knowingly concealed E.F.R., a person for whose arrest a warrant and process had been issued under the provisions of the law of the United States, so as to prevent the discovery and arrest of E.F.R., after notice and knowledge of the fact that a warrant and process had been issued for the apprehension of E.F.R., in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1071; Count Two On or about April 18, 2025, Dugan did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due and proper administration of the law under which a pending proceeding was being had before a department and agency of the United States, namely the administrative arrest of E.F.R. for purposes of removal proceedings conducted by the United States Department of Homeland Security, by committing affirmative acts to assist E.F.R. to evade arrest, including: a) confronting members of a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Task Force and falsely telling them they needed a judicial warrant to effectuate the arrest of E.F.R.; b) upon learning that they had an administrative warrant for E.F.R.’s arrest, directing all identified members of the ICE Task Force to leave…”

 

A report at the Gateway Pundit described how the video shows Dugan “angrily confronting ICE agents in the courthouse.”

 

Dugan later was arrested by the FBI for obstructing federal law enforcement.

 

She then claimed that everything she did was part of her judicial duty, so she is totally immune to any prosecution.

 

Dugan has been relieved of her duties and is facing trial.

 

WND previously has reported Dugan could face sentencing of up to six years in jail and $350,000 in fines if convicted.

Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 11:30 a.m. No.23295900   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5963 >>6087 >>6195

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07-07/cloud-seeding-company-accused-causing-texas-floods

 

Cloud Seeding Company Accused Of Causing Texas Floods

 

Despite the fact that conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory has been proven to be fact and not fiction time and time again, the collective consciousness of society inevitably reaches a point where its psychological defense mechanisms kick in. When subjects too difficult to broach are reached, they're dismissed as if they're the apophenic delusions of a madman when in reality they're often a truth too distressing to acknowledge. Often, association with a tragedy makes recognizing the epiphany that an official narrative is the real work of fiction, like in the cases of Sandy Hook or 9/11, an act of heresy. Then, independent inquiry meant to uncover the truth is treated as an act of violence instead of critical thinking.

 

This dynamic has reared its ugly head once again in the wake of massive floods across central Texas that have tragically led to the deaths of over 100, including 84 fatalities alone in Kerr County, where 28 children lost their lives after devastating flash flooding on the Fourth of July led to waters from the Guadalupe River rising over 26 feet in merely 45 minutes. The disaster has entered into the history books as one of the deadliest floods in Texas to take place in decades. The fatal turn of events led to a predictably politicized response where leftist media blamed everything from climate change to President Trump's policy making. Despite that shameless exploitation of the tragedy, the liberal legacy media shied away from another factor behind what may have caused the floods that has remained unexamined despite having more empirical evidence behind its validity: weather modification.

 

For decades, weather modification has been a facet of technocratic operations led by governments and private industry alike that has been relegated under the dismissive label of being a conspiracy theory. Yet, in the case of the Texas floods, it has emerged as a clear factor behind the natural disaster. On July 2nd, just 2 days before the massive deluge, a cloud seeding company named Rainmaker finished its operations in Texas. Rainmakers operation was designed to modify the weather by inducing cloud formations to fend off droughts in high-risk areas throughout the state. In the wake of the tragedy, its cloud seeding operations have come into focus as being a potential cause of the devastating floods.

 

The natural disaster in the Texan Hill Country is a tragedy. My prayers are with Texas.

 

Rainmaker did not operate in the affected area on the 3rd or 4th or contribute to the floods that occurred over the region.

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Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 11:30 a.m. No.23295905   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5963 >>6087 >>6195

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07-07/cloud-seeding-company-accused-causing-texas-floods

 

Rainmaker will always be fully transparent. https://t.co/J5QlUbruCd

— Augustus Doricko (@ADoricko) July 5, 2025

 

Rainmaker CEO Augustus Doricko firmly denied the insinuation that his company's cloud seeding operation could be related to the flash floods in any way, shape, or form. "Did Rainmaker conduct any operations that could have impacted the floods? No," Doricko vehemently denied in the wake of speculation arising across the internet.

 

Doricko started the geoengineering startup in 2023 at just 22 years old. In 2024, Doricko received a grant from the Thiel Fellowship, connecting Rainmaker to the vast array of companies funded by the technocratic venture capitalist. Like Thiel and other technocrats, Doricko possesses a god complex that is the driving force behind his mission at Rainmaker. The Rainmaker founder's social media channels contain a catalog of grandiose proclamations in which Doricko makes it clear that he considers the direction his company has gone in to be the result of providence. “Dams modify rivers, Jesus was a carpenter who modified forests (cut trees) to build houses. We aim to serve God.” he stated in one such post on his X account.

 

"You're playing God by modifying creation!"

 

God's first commandment to Adam was to steward the garden, Genesis 1:28 gives man dominion over creation

 

Dams modify rivers, Jesus was a carpenter who modified forests (cut trees) to build houses

 

We aim to serve God

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— Augustus Doricko (@ADoricko) April 17, 2024

 

In response to the horrifying scenes of the Texas floods that carried undertones of the Great Flood chronicled in the Book of Genesis, Rainmaker's CEO carefully laid out his company's operations to explain how they would not have resulted in any inclement weather. According to Doricko, Rainmaker ceased its latest cloud seeding operation in central Texas on July 2nd, more than 24 hours before the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood advisory. He went into further detail, explaining how only 2 clouds were seeded during the operation, both of which dissipated by 4 pm on July 2nd, over 24 hours before the torrential downpours that led to the deaths of over 100 Texans occurred. Doricko cited data from the NWS, which detailed excessive moisture as the reason for canceling the cloud seeding operation.

 

For its part, the NWS echoed the Rainmaker CEO's position. NWS officials linked the rains across central Texas to Tropical Storm Barry, a short-lived cyclone that caused significant flooding in southeastern Mexico, causing 5 deaths. According to the NWS, remnants from the cyclone are what triggered the excessive moisture alert that caused Rainmaker to avert its cloud seeding operations in central Texas on July 2nd. Meteorologists determined that the confluence of Tropical Storm Barry's mid-level circulation with a larger mid-level trough of moisture from the Pacific created a weather pattern that led to the heavy rains that washed across central Texas.

 

In typical fashion, the political conjecture advancing the official narrative from the NWS was incongruent with reality. Speaking from a press conference in Kerrville on Monday, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas remarked, "To the best of my knowledge, there is zero evidence of anything related to anything like weather modification," when discussing the tragedy affecting his constituents. Cruz's remarks came just days after Georgia Congressional Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill into the House of Representatives designed to limit weather modification operations in response to their speculated link to the Texas floods. Cruz unequivocally denounced the premise raised by Rep. Greene and the outcry of denizens across the internet that shifted focus back onto the risks of weather modification operations like cloud seeding. "The internet can be a strange place….people can come up with all sorts of crazy theories." Cruz declared.

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Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 11:30 a.m. No.23295908   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5963 >>6087 >>6195

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07-07/cloud-seeding-company-accused-causing-texas-floods

 

. @tedcruz reiterates that weather modification and Rainmaker had nothing to do with the flooding in Texas

 

Fear mongering to rally political support over baseless claims in the midst of this tragedy is reprehensible pic.twitter.com/KHM85RFJsW

— Augustus Doricko (@ADoricko) July 7, 2025

 

In the wake of the flood, Rep. Greene explained the purpose of her bill through a post to her account on X. "I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity." The post from the Georgia representative read, concluding that breaking the prospective law would result in a felony offense.

 

While critics of Greene ridiculed the bill she proposed, it follows in the footsteps of another bill signed into law at the state level in Florida last month. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 56 into law on June 20th in response to concerns over weather modification programs. The bill repealed state law that allowed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to issue permits for weather modification and other geo-engineering endeavors. According to Florida state environmental officials, no such permits were ever requested despite their availability. Despite that, Republican Florida Senator Ileana Garcia led the charge against the mere possibility of those permits being issued en route to bill passing the Florida legislature with widespread support. When the bill went into effect on July 1st, the issuance of weather modification permits was revoked from the Florida DEP. Independent efforts to geoengineer weather in the state could also result in a third-degree felony carrying a prison sentence of as much as 5 years and fines up to $100,000 under the law. Planes equipped with weather modification equipment are also now required to declare themselves with the Florida Department of Transportation.

 

Like Greene, DeSantis was met with the same vitriol following the passage of Senate Bill 56. Democratic State Representative Anna Eskamani chastised the bill, remarking, "I think it's important that we do not legislate under that type of pressure but that we legislate on science, we legislate on fact, we legislate not on fear but on information." In turn, Representative Kevin Steele responded to that empty leftist platitude by quipping, "The last time we had to listen to the science, we wore masks for 9 months."

 

🚨 BREAKING: Governor Ron DeSantis is signing a new law to ban geoengineering and weather modification in Florida.

 

HUGE.

 

"The way to fight climate change is to inject this stuff, and block the sun? No. We're not doing that in Florida, we're the Sunshine State… this is… pic.twitter.com/h6RqO4dhb6

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 6, 2025

 

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Anonymous ID: 7d6e3b July 8, 2025, 11:31 a.m. No.23295910   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5963 >>6087 >>6195

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07-07/cloud-seeding-company-accused-causing-texas-floods

 

Presently, 8 states have introduced bills trying to ban chemtrails — which have long served as the embodiment of weather modification operations. Ironically, Texas is one of those states, alongside Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The public discourse against chemtrails was also bolstered by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when he confirmed his belief in their existence and broader applications beyond weather modification. RFK Jr. attributed chemtrails to covert operations led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). During an interview, the HHS Secretary remarked on the subject of chemtrails when he took questions from a studio audience. “I’m going to do everything in my power to stop it,” he said. “Find out who’s doing it and hold them accountable.”

 

Independent of the validity of concerns over them, chemtrails have long served as a reductive caricature used to dismiss concerns about weather modification and other nefarious black projects. Yet, while federal agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have publicly denied engaging in weather modification operations, hiding behind the idea that accusations of any such operations are tantamount to the chemtrails "conspiracy theory," the truth about government-led weather modification efforts is irrefutable.

 

You’re right. Look into HAARP.

— Champagne Joshi (@JoshWalkos) October 7, 2024

 

Since 1990, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) has led government-funded projects designed to conduct research into and experiments on the Earth's ionosphere. The program was initially funded by none other than DARPA, along with the US Navy and Air Force working in concert with military contractor BAE Advanced Technologies. Operations designed to use high-frequency radiowaves to agitate portions of the ionosphere were conducted out of HAARP's Gakona, Alaska, site in 1993 before DARPA and other military agencies behind the program transferred its operations into the hands of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2015. HAARP has become a talisman representing potential government-funded weather modification operations since its inception, though its publicly acknowledged methods are distinct from the characterization behind chemtrails.

 

HAARP demonstrates the complexity of weather modification in comparison to its simplistic public conceptions about the burgeoning new field. The juxtaposition of that complexity against widely held views about weather modification from proponents and opponents alike on theories such as chemtrails shows how little is known about the underlying mechanisms behind the technology as well as the potential consequences of its applications. While companies like Rainmaker are quick to dismiss accusations about the potential impacts that their operations may lead to, those public denials fail to detail any contemplation of the delicate balance of the Earth's weather systems that they may disrupt. The demonstration of that neophytic understanding serves as an instance of the hubris of man daring to defy the gods, echoing the Atlantean mythos, in a manner that could very well end up bringing the same conclusion to this chapter of humanity.

 

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