Beijing Weather Modification Office employs 37,000

One of the most easily proven, often misunderstood “conspiracy theories” is the idea that government and multinational corporations have the capability of controlling the weather.  I have covered this in detail and have followed the HAARP, Chemtrail, Geoengineering stories since the 3/11 earthquake.  One of the most reliable bloggers on this matter is DutchSinse, who offers free weather reports based on his tracking of radar anomalies and in-depth weather modification research.  At the bottom of this post I have articles to reference where I have covered this issue before.  This little tidbit of info I stumbled upon today, and thought I’d share.

Beijing Weather Modification Office

The Beijing Weather Modification Office is a unit of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau tasked with weather control in Beijing and its surrounding areas, including parts of Hebei and Inner Mongolia.[1][2][3] The Beijing Weather Modification Office form a part of China’s nationwide weather control effort, believed to be the world’s largest; it employs 37,000 people nationwide, who seed clouds by firing rockets and shells loaded with silver iodide into them.[4] According to Zhang Qiang, head of the Office, cloud seeding increased precipitation in Beijing by about one-eighth in 2004; nationwide, similar efforts added 7.4 trillion cubic feet (210 km3) of rain between 1995 and 2003.[5]

The work of the Office is largely aimed at hailstorm prevention or making rain to end droughts; they have also induced precipitation for purposes of firefighting or counteracting the effect of severe dust storms, as they did in the aftermath of one storm in April 2006 which dropped 300,000 tonnes of dust and sand on the city and was believed to have been the largest in five years.[2][6] Their technology was also used to create snow on New Year’s Day in 1997.[7] Other proposed future uses for induced precipitation include lowering temperatures in summer, in hopes of reducing electricity consumption.[5] More prominently, they were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics are free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.[4] The office created a snowstorm in November of 2009.[8][9]

Golden-Rule.org articles on weather manipulation:

CNBC Host admits Silver Market manipulated

As has been reported for god-knows-how long by Max Keiser, CFTC, and other precious metals commentators, the Silver market is one of the most manipulated commodities markets in the world.  JP Morgan, long rumored to have a paper short position on Silver larger than the total annual tonnage produced in a year’s time, is now openly manipulating said sector.

Here are some of my articles related to this issue, but first please venture over to Silver Doctor’s for the whole scoop:

CNBC Host States Silver Manipulation is a Fact, NOT a Conspiracy!

Golden-Rule.org articles on Silver manipulation, JP Morgan crimes, and the insolvency of the banking sector

Drug giant pleads guilty, fined $3B for drug marketing

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON–Prescription drug giant GlaxoSmithKline will plead guilty and pay $3 billion to resolve federal criminal and civil inquiries arising from the company’s illegal promotion of some of its products, its failure to report safety data and alleged false price reporting as part of the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history, the Justice Department announced Monday.

The company agreed to plead guilty to three criminal counts, including two counts of introducing misbranded drugs — Paxil and Wellbutrin — and one count of failing to report safety data about the drug Avandia to the Food and Drug Administration.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, GSK(GSK) will pay a total of $1 billion, including a criminal fine of $956,814,400. The company also will pay $2 billion to resolve civil claims under the federal government’s False Claims Act.

“Today’s multibillion-dollar settlement is unprecedented in both size and scope,” Deputy Attorney General James Cole said. “At every level, we are determined to stop practices that jeopardize patients’ health, harm taxpayers, and violate the public trust – and this historic action is a clear warning to any company that chooses to break the law.”

Prosecutors say GSK encouraged use of Paxil for children although it was not approved for anyone under 18. The company also promoted Wellbutrin for uses besides major depressive disorder, its only approved use. They say that between 2001 and 2007 GSK failed to report on two studies of the cardiovascular safety of Avandia, a diabetes drug.

Glaxo is pleading guilty to these violations of FDA regulations, which are misdemeanors. It has set aside $3.5 billion to cover the cost of the fines and other penalties related to the government’s seven-year probe of the company’s marketing practices for Paxil, Wellbutrin and Avandia, three of its blockbuster drugs.

The company earlier set aisde $3 billion for legal costs tied to health problems that people taking Avandia and the other medicines are at risk of suffering.

Glaxo has already paid more than $700 million to resolve patient lawsuits, alleging Avandia caused heart attacks and strokes. Many of the Avandia cases have been consolidated before a federal judge in Philadelphia.