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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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April 23, 1995: HAARP - Linda Moulton Howe | Predictions & Prophecies - Ted Flynn

Apr 23, 1995
1h 17m
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Linda Moulton Howe delivers a detailed investigative report on Project HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in Gakona, Alaska. Howe traces the project's evolution from a small subsidiary called ARCO Power Technologies through its acquisition by E-Systems, a secretive defense contractor handling $1.8 billion in classified work, and finally its absorption by Raytheon in April 1995. She interviews researcher Nick Begich, who reveals that HAARP's patents describe what amounts to a ground-based weapons system rooted in Nikola Tesla's technologies, capable of ionospheric heating, submarine communications, and three-dimensional imaging of underground structures.

Ted Flynn follows with an examination of Catholic prophecy and the growing convergence between religious and secular predictions of global upheaval. Flynn connects escalating natural disasters, 33-pound hailstones falling in China, and the Oklahoma City bombing to prophetic messages spanning centuries. He describes warnings of three days of darkness, economic collapse, and a world where two-thirds of humanity perishes. Art Bell presses Flynn on the relationship between UFOs and Catholic theology, drawing a sharp distinction between angelic encounters marked by peace and alien contact marked by fear.

Key Moments

  1. HAARP exposed: 3D imaging of the continent and underground structures: Howe lays out the public goal of HAARP at Gakona, Alaska - the world's most powerful ionospheric heater for submarine communication and 3D imaging of the North American continent to find underground tunnels and shelters.

  2. ARCO Power Technologies: a $5M shell beats Raytheon for HAARP: Begich explains how APTI - a subsidiary of ARCO with no profit history, only twelve patents - beat Raytheon and Penn State for the $25M-then-$150M HAARP contract because of Eastlund's proprietary Tesla-based patents.

  3. E-Systems: $1.8B in classified work, $800M in black projects: Begich names E-Systems - which acquired APTI - as a $2.1B-revenue defense contractor with $1.8B in classified NSA/CIA/military work and $800M in black projects Congress doesn't see.

  4. 33-pound hail in China: biblical-size signs of the times: Bell reads an AP report of 33-pound hailstones crushing homes and killing people in a Chinese province; Flynn frames it within the ten plagues of Egypt and accelerating global signs.