Conspiracy Theorists Say Obama Engineered Hurricane Sandy

[underpants]

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/10/29/conspiracy-theorists-say-obama-engineered-hurricane-sandy

As Hurricane Sandy blasts the eastern seaboard just over a week before Election Day, a number of conspiracy theorists have decided President Barack Obama engineered the mega-storm to secure his re-election.

InfoWars.com, TheIntelHub.com, and ConsfearacyNewz all posted stories over the last several days alleging that the The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, helped the president engineer Sandy.

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.

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."

In a piece on the nonprofit web site Skeptic.com in March 2010, aerospace and computer engineer David Naiditch explained why he believes conspiracy theorists love to blame HAARP. "[It] is a gigantic, high-energy, Pentagon-funded gizmo located in the remote Alaskan wilderness that plays around with the Earth's ionosphere," he wrote, "but whose purpose seems deeply mysterious to the scientifically uninformed."

[tanyev]

1. I'm voting for the guy that can control the weather.

[whathehell]

9. Touche!

Good thinking

[underpants]

12. some people say that he also direct the plot line of "Walking Dead" while he plays basketball

it's true, you can look it up

[leftofcool]

17. Me too!

[Cirque du So-What]

2. LOL at InfoWars.com

Alex Jones never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like.

[ibegurpard]

3. so global warming is a myth...

but the President can call up hurricanes on demand...

[underpants]

13. Yyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeessss

[whathehell]

14. Well, you know, he's probably the anti-Christ an all

so it may make whatever passes for "sense" to them.

[a geek named Bob]

4. WOW...

Obama
HAARP
Weather control

That's a three-fer!

My wife says I'm never to take whatever it is that they did...

[Fumesucker]

5. Sounds like rodent copulation to me n/t

[scheming daemons]

6. If true, he would have directed it at Florida... 29 electoral voters, baby

[1StrongBlackMan]

7. Wasn't there a James Bond ...

movie with this theme?

... Or was it a Get Smart episode?

[underpants]

15. Our Man Flint - American Bond parody with weather controlling evil genius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Man_Flint

Our Man Flint is a 1966 American action film that parodies the James Bond genre. The film was directed by Daniel Mann, written by Hal Fimberg and Ben Starr, and starring James Coburn as master spy Derek Flint. The main premise of the film is that a trio of mad scientists attempt to blackmail the world with a weather-control machine.

[1StrongBlackMan]

20. Yeah ... That's it! n/t

[Eyes of the World]

8. President Obama - Weather Master!

Where does he find the time?

[underpants]

11. He multi-tasks

Welcome to DU

[Johonny]

10. I thought Micheal Crighton was dead

[reformist2]

16. Quick! Somebody plant the idea over there that storms don't usually move east-to-west...

...it must be HAARP!!!!

[kentuck]

18. Well, you have to admit..

It was rather unusual the way it went up the coast until it got level with NY and NJ and then made a dramatic left turn! Would God act in such an unpredictable way??

[underpants]

19. Why do those people even LIVE THERE??!?!?!?

oh sorry that was about New Orleans. Never mind.

[nolabear]

21. *snort!*

[jenw2]

22. All we need now is a Newsweak(sic) article claiming the same...

RIP you biased jerks.

[hack89]

23. Unfortunately such crap is bipartisan

there have been plenty of HAARP threads on DU .

[Lucinda]

24. I thought God was punishing the NE for teh gay support?

We really need a spread sheet to track all of the crap out there this election.

[Incitatus]

25. Didn't Infowars say Bush was supposed to declare marshal law before the end of his term

and put dissenters in camps?