By Amy
Worthington
www.globalresearch.ca
http://archive.dailypicture.net/us_chemical_spray_plane___closeup__satellite_photographs.htm
North America is now suffering its seventh year of
conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by
the U.S. government under the guise of national security. Concerned citizens
watch in fear as military tankers discolor the skies with toxic chemicals that
morph into synthetic clouds.
We continually witness bizarre
meteorological occurrences as powerful electromagnetic devices manipulate both
the jet stream and individual storm fronts to create artificial weather and
climatic conditions. Black operations projects embedded within these aerosol
missions are documented to sicken and disorient select populations with
biological test agents and psychotronic mind/mood control technologies.
Part of what is happening in the atmosphere above us involves the
Pentagon's secret space weapons program, designed for strategic, operational and
tactical levels of war. NASA missions will soon be transferred to Pentagon
control.1 The Air Force Space Command declares that, in order to monitor and
shape world events, it must fight intense, decisive wars with great precision
from space.2 Air Force Secretary James G. Roche has stated: "Space capabilities
are integrated with, and affect every link in the kill chain."3
A
glimpse into new death technologies under construction is in legislation
introduced by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinch. His unsuccessful Space
Preservation Act of 2001 was intended to ban space deployment of:4
*
electronic, psychotronic and information weaponry
* high altitude ultra
low frequency weapons
* plasma, electromagnetic, sonic and ultrasonic
weapons
* laser weapons
* strategic, theater, tactical or
extraterrestrial weapons
* chemical biological, environmental climate or
tectonic weapons
* chemtrails (this item was stricken from a later
version, suggesting duress)
In their quest to
remain top dog in the kill chain, the purveyors of perpetual war have
deliberately dimmed earth's life-giving sunlight,5 and reduced atmospheric
visibility with lung-clogging particulates and polymers.6 This ecological
terrorism has severely compromised public health, according to thousands of
testimonials. Years of mass appeals to legislators, media and military officials
for information, and for cessation of catastrophic atmospheric degradation, have
fallen on deaf bureaucratic ears. Public awareness of what befalls us remains as
murky as our skies because those "in the know" are muzzled by national secrecy
laws and Americans have no authority to challenge matters of national security.
Left to gather clues, we know this much so far:
1. At least part of
the aerosol project has been dubbed Operation Cloverleaf,7 probably due to its
multi-faceted operations, which include: weather modification, military
communications, space weapons development, ozone and global warming research
plus biological weaponry and detection testing.
2. Dumping tons of
particulate matter from aircraft has geo-engineered our planetary atmosphere
into a highly charged, electrically-conductive plasma useful for military
projects.8 The air we breathe is laden with asbestos-sized synthetic fibers and
toxic metals, including barium salts, aluminum, and reportedly, radioactive
thorium.9 These materials act as electrolytes to enhance conductivity of
military radar and radio waves.10 Poisonous on par with arsenic and a proven
suppressant of the human immune system,11 atmospheric barium weakens human
muscles, including those of the heart.12 Inhaled aluminum goes directly to the
brain and medical specialists confirm that it causes oxidative stress within
brain tissue, leading to formation of Alzheimer's like neurofibrillary
tangles.13 Radioactive thorium is known to cause leukemia and other cancers.14
3. Only a small percentage of the military's atmospheric modification
projects are visibly obvious. What we can't see is equally dangerous. The
ionosphere, the earth and its inhabitants are continually bombarded with high
frequency microwaves used to manipulate the charged atmosphere for weather
modification, information gathering and for tectonic (earthquake-producing)
weaponry.15 Independent chemtrail researcher Clifford Carnicom confirms that we
are also continuously subjected to extremely low electromagnetic frequencies
(ELF) pulsing at 4 hertz multiples, frequencies known to profoundly affect human
biological and mental functioning.16
4. There is a well-documented
biological component to continuously ongoing atmospheric studies in which
nations and regions are furtively inoculated via specially designed delivery
systems with combinations of viruses, bacteria, fungi, mycoplasma, desiccated
blood cells and exotic biological markers so that testmasters can assess human,
animal and plant response.17
5. The multi-organizational megalith
perpetrating these bio-chem projects against humanity includes the U.S.
Department of Defense (DOD) and its research arm DARPA, plus the Department of
Energy (DOE) with its huge network of national labs and universities. Private
defense contractors and pharmaceutical companies are heavily involved.18
Cooperating governments of other nations and probably some United Nations
agencies are complicit, since the aerosol projects are global in scope.
Gross chemical and electromagnetic pollution is only part of the
horrific realities we endure. The sociopaths who brazenly pervert skies, climate
and weather for power and profit are the same madmen who have waged four limited
nuclear wars since 1991. Radioactive weaponry, declared both illegal and immoral
by the entire civilized world, has been used by the Pentagon in Desert Storm,
the Balkans campaign and the on-going occupation-wars against Afghanistan and
Iraq. Few Americans understand the extent of carnage inflicted in their name
across the planet.
By scientific
definition, the missiles, tank penetrators and bunker busting bombs unleashed
against Iraq and Afghanistan by U.S. and British forces in the so-called war on
terror are nuclear weapons.19 Refuse from radioactive weaponry does not
disperse, but remains in the atmosphere organotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic
to all living flesh for 4.5 billion years.
Inhabitants of the Pentagon's
two newly "liberated" nations are now slowly dying of radiation and heavy metal
poisoning. Victims of U.S. weaponry used in Afghanistan have a concentration of
non-depleted uranium isotopes in their bodies never before seen in civilian
populations.20 Tons of depleted and non-depleted uranium contaminating their
land, air, food and water guarantee their painful demise. Using data from the
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), nuclear scientist Leuren Moret
calculates that the estimated 2,500+ tons of depleted uranium used against Iraq
in 1991 and 2003 is sufficient to cause 25 million new cancers.21 Is it a
coincidence that the population of Iraq, according to the CIA, is 25 million?
The quarter million U.S. and British fighting forces who have helped the
Pentagon deliver this holocaust also face inevitable radiological death by slow
burn. Rotated into atomic war zones since 2001, coalition troops have inhaled
and ingested millions of tiny invisible ceramic uranium particles which emit
alpha, beta and gamma radiation as they embed in lungs, kidneys, blood, lymph
and bone.22 Radiation exposure to a single internalized U-238 (uranium) alpha
particle is 50 times the allowable whole body dose for one year under
international standards.23 As U-238 decays into daughter isotopes, it becomes
ever more radioactive, causing cell and organ destruction to escalate over
time.24 Uranium contamination leads to incapacitating, multi-organ system
disorders identical to illnesses suffered by thousands of Gulf War I vets.
Bodily fluids poisoned with uranium isotopes sicken spouses and visit upon
offspring a genetic Armageddon.25
Who knows what a disabled and
prematurely dying military population will mean to future stability and safety
of USA? Yet Senator Chuck Hagel (R- Neb.) now demands that America provide more
fodder for its atomic battlefields by reinstating the military draft so that
"all of our citizens...bear some responsibility and pay some price" in order to
"understand the intensity of the challenges we face."26
Despite
disingenuous denials that biological harm will result from atomic warfare,27 the
Pentagon knows full well the gruesome realities of uranium weaponry by virtue of
its own voluminous studies spanning 60 years. Pentagon documents confirm that
America's war establishment knowingly exposes its own troops to dangerous levels
of radiation.28 The resulting illness of those now returning from the war zones
is already making headlines.29
Because our military-industrial overlords
brazenly poison the very grunts who make their war games possible, we must
logically conclude there is virtually nothing they would not secretly and
sadistically do to the rest of us. Military officials lie as perniciously about
chemtrail operations30 as they do about effects of DU weaponry. If people were
to consider the published science regarding chemtrails and DU, they would
understand that we are all in mortal jeopardy.
Both the
Pentagon's aerosol operations and its limited nuclear wars are deeply
interconnected. We can trace the beginnings of Operation Cloverleaf right to the
Strangelove brain of Dr. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and
proponent of nuking inhabited coast lines to rearrange them for economic
projects.31 Before he died in 2003, Teller was director emeritus of Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, where plans for nuclear, biological and directed
energy weapons are crafted. In 1997, Teller publicly outlined his proposal to
use aircraft to scatter in the stratosphere millions of tons of
electrically-conductive metallic materials, ostensibly to reduce global
warming.32
Shortly after Teller's presentation, the public began seeing
frenetic chemtrailing. In 2000, CBS News admitted that scientists were "looking
at drastic solutions for global warming, including manipulating the atmosphere
on a massive scale." CBS confirmed that the plan to load the air with tiny
particles would "deflect enough sunlight to trigger global cooling."33
Teller estimated that commercial aircraft could be used to spew these
particles at a cost of 33 cents a pound.34 This gives credence to a report by an
airline manager, forced by a compulsory non-disclosure agreement to remain
anonymous, that commercial aircraft have been co-opted to assist the military in
consummating Project Cloverleaf.35 A 1991 Hughes aircraft patent confirms that
sunscreen particulate materials can be run through jet engines.36 A science
textbook now used in some public schools discusses the sunscreen project by
showing a large orange-red jet with the caption, "Jet engines running on richer
fuel would add particles to the atmosphere to create a sunscreen." The logo on
the plane says "Particle Air."37 The implications of this crucial information
should not be understated. A program to make America's millions of annual jet
flights a source of specially designed particulate pollution is serious
business.
Cloverleaf particles and polymers saturating the air we
breathe are smaller than 10 microns (PM 10) and are invisible to the human eye.
By comparison, a human hair is 60 to 100 microns in thickness. Scientists and
the EPA report that because PM10 and sub-micron pollution particles bypass lung
filters and enter the blood stream, they cause radical changes in the endocrine
and nervous systems. 38 They can trigger high blood pressure and cause heart
attack within two hours of inhalation.39 They cause the blood to become sticky,
making it tougher for the heart to pump and increasing the risk of blood clots
and vessel damage.40 Now researchers in Taiwan document "a significant increase"
in the number of stroke victims when PM10 pollutant levels rise.41 The American
Lung Association confirms that we are breathing more toxic air than ever.42 No
wonder nationwide asthma rates have been soaring in recent years.43
Tiny
synthetic filaments called polymers are part of the brew. In 1990, a NATO report
detailed how high-flying aircraft can modify the atmosphere by spraying polymers
to absorb electromagnetic radiation.44 U.S. patent number 6315213 describes how
cross-linked aqueous polymers dispersed into a storm diminish rain.45
Polymer chemist
Dr. R. Michael Castle has studied atmospheric polymers for years. He has found
that some of them contain bioactive materials, which can cause "serious skin
lesions and diseases when absorbed into the skin."46 He has identified
microscopic polymers comprised of genetically-engineered fungal forms mutated
with viruses. He says that trillions of fusarium (fungus)/virus mutated spores,
which secrete a powerful mico-toxin, are part of the air we breathe.47 Allergies
anyone?
We can safely bet that into our particle-enriched air,
experimenters are also dumping nanoparticles, developed for a variety of
military and industrial uses. These engineered carbon molecules, as small as
one-thousandth the diameter of human hair, display bizarre chemical properties
and are known to trigger organ damage.48 A recent study at Southern Methodist
University found that fish exposed to one type of nanoparticle suffered severe
brain damage after only 48 hours.49
The military's aerosol operations
have been climate altering to the extreme. Air traffic is a huge source of
greenhouse pollution. Increasing that traffic exponentially in order to scatter
tons of heat-trapping metallic particulates and heat-liberating barium salts
have undoubtedly led to accelerated global warming. Greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, including carbon dioxide, have reached a record high this year.50 As
carbon dioxide levels rise, oxygen levels decrease.
In 1996,
Scientists for Global Responsibility compiled a report contending that dangerous
geoengineering, as proposed by Teller and the Global Change Research
Coordination Office, would be absolutely ineffective in mitigating global
warming. The report noted that climate engineering research is funded by
industry with a vested interest in continued high consumption of fossil fuels.51
The hair-brained scheme of particle engineering was contrived to ensure that
industry polluters will never be forced to decrease their greenhouse gas
emissions. But because warming and pollution trends have worsened drastically
since the aerosol projects began, we must suspect that the warming mitigation
program is a hoax and that chemtrailing is really intended, among other things,
to create a series of "hobgoblins."
The establishment's modus operandi
for maintaining a fierce and lucrative hold upon the collective American mind
has been defined precisely by satirist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) who wrote: "The
whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and thus
clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
In The Report from Iron Mountain
published in 1967, just as the Pentagon's lucrative Vietnam War was being revved
into high gear, establishment braintrusters confirmed that perpetual war is
absolutely vital for controlling and manipulating the masses. The document even
suggested a number of options for creating fictitious enemies, noting that
perpetual war induces populations to give blind allegiance to political
authority.52
Since the 1930s, when the Eastern Establishment, including
the Bush family, used its New York banks and oil companies to secretly fund
Hitler's German Nazi party,53 our controllers have employed FEAR, the concept of
ENEMY and WAR to keep us in bondage. Chemtrailing is a manifestation of the
Fourth Reich, an era of corporate fascism ushered in by a powerful military
juggernaut, which manufactures enemies and unleashes fake terror attacks to
scare us into voiceless submission.
Both Saddam Hussein and the al Queda
networks have long been nourished with U.S. government and corporate funding and
groomed by U.S. military and corporate advisors to play useful roles as
"enemies."54 Former German Technology Minister Andreas von Bulow recently
confirmed on U.S. radio that hijacked planes were able to fly around the eastern
U.S. on 9/11 unimpeded by military interdiction because those attacks were part
of a carefully-orchestrated "covert operation" designed to coerce America into
perpetual conflict with the Muslim world.55
Now, a "secret" Pentagon
report has been conveniently leaked to the media. It contends that abrupt
climate change is the most fearful hobgoblin yet.56 Authored by change agents
with ties to the CIA and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the report contends that
abrupt climate change will lead to a global catastrophe of monumental
proportions, including nuclear war and natural disasters, as whole nations
disappear beneath the encroaching sea and survivors fight for dwindling food,
water and energy supplies.
Yet the Pentagon has been involved for
decades in the drastic manipulation of weather, climate and atmospheric
conditions. The U.S. used a chemical agent dubbed Olive Oil during Operation
Popeye to induce heavy rains in Vietnam 40 years ago.57 The Air Force document
titled "Weather As a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" lists its
weaponized agenda for creating abrupt climate change including: Storm creation
and modification, fog and cloud creation, precipitation enhancement,
precipitation denial, drought inducement and artificial creation of "space
weather." This document also states that the military's radical weather
modification agenda will "become a part of national security policy with both
domestic and international applications."58
Weather weapons are now
routinely used in war zones. A citizen reporting from Serbia noted that during
NATO operations in the Balkans, black clouds suddenly materialized out of blue
skies, hailstones were the size of eggs, and surreal thunder and lightening
terrified the people. He reported that scientists found that the electromagnetic
field over Serbia had been punctured, causing rain systems to circumvent the
region.59 In addition to manufactured drought, scientists also predict that
Serbia will suffer 10,000 cancer deaths from DU weaponry used there.60
According to University of Ottawa Professor Michael Chossudovsky, the
military's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), operating in
Alaska as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, is a powerful tool for
weather and climate modification.61 Operated jointly by the U.S. Navy and Air
Force, HAARP antennas bombard and heat the ionosphere, causing electromagnetic
frequencies to bounce back to earth, penetrating everything living and dead.62
HAARP transmissions
make holes in the ozone,63 creating yet another hobgoblin. HAARP inventor
Bernard Eastlund described in his original patent how antenna energy can
interact with plumes of atmospheric particles, used as a lens or focusing
device, to modify weather.64 HAARP is capable of triggering floods, droughts and
hurricanes, much to the chagrin of both the European Parliament and the Russian
Duma.65
HAARP also generates sweeping pulses through the ULF/ELF
range.66 In 2000, independent researchers monitored HAARP transmissions of 14
hertz. They found that when these signals were broadcast at high output levels,
wind speeds topped 70 miles per hour. They watched as these same transmissions
dispersed a huge weather front approaching the west coast from California to
British Columbia. Although precipitation had been originally forecast, the front
was seen shredding apart on satellite photos and rain did not materialize.67 The
hobgoblin drought can be an enriching and empowering tool for certain corporate
and governing entities.
HAARP is not only capable of destabilizing
agricultural and ecological systems anywhere on the planet, but its effects can
target select regions to affect human physical, mental and emotional responses
during non-lethal warfare projects.68 HAARP frequencies beamed at specific
targets can generate catastrophic earthquakes,69 exactly like the quake last
December which killed thousands of people in Iran, a nemesis nation according to
the Bush administration.
The Pentagon's warning about climate
catastrophe is surely nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt to prepare the
masses for the bizarre atmospheric upheavals we can expect as the military
continues to brutalize our planet and near space with its grotesque toys. And we
ain't seen nothing yet. Dr. Eastlund and his ilk have developed plans for solar
power satellites designed to modify the weather with electromagnetic beam output
that dwarfs the present HAARP system.70 As abrupt climate change is increasingly
orchestrated, we will surely need additional fascist agencies, an ever-growing
military budget and more poison-particle projects that just happen to ensure
population reduction as a side benefit.
Despite visual evidence that
every aspect of our physical environment is being manipulated and damaged for
war games, some Americans cannot accept that dangerous covert operations are
being conducted by a government they still believe to be a virtuous defender of
freedom. Their stumbling block is a numbing belief that their own officials
would never perpetrate dangerous experimentation on humanity since "they have
families too." History and the release of declassified government documents
disprove such naiveté.
Although "they" had families too, the U.S.
government and its defense contractors exposed citizens of the northwest U.S. to
huge and deliberate releases of radioactive iodine 131 from the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation where plutonium was produced for nuclear bombs.71 Those Cold War
releases unleashed radiation illnesses upon thousands of downwinders, some of
whom received up to 350 rads of radiation when a maximum safety dose is set at
.025 rads annually.72 Between 1949 and 1952, radioactive pellets, dust and
particles were tested on the hapless citizens of Utah and New Mexico.73
By 1963, 1,200 nuclear weapons tests conducted at the Nevada test site
had exposed every person in the U.S. to deadly radioactive fallout, causing
millions of fetal deaths, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths and birth
defects.74 The U.S. government also conducted over 4,000 radiation experiments
on individual human test subjects without their informed consent.75 The delayed
effects of decades of radiation exposure from weapons testing are today
demonstrated by a U.S. population plagued with epidemic cancer and heart
disease, neurological disorders, low fertility, chronic fatigue, obesity
(thyroid involvement), immune system dysfunction and learning disabilities.
Approximately half of all pregnancies in the U.S. result in prenatal or
postnatal death or an otherwise less than healthy baby.76 As military tankers
spew white chemical plumes across America at a cost of $3,448 per hour per
tanker,77 we are reminded of Dr. Leonard Cole's 1994 testimony before a Senate
Committee regarding 45 years of open air testing during which military aircraft
sprayed American cities with bacteria, fungus and carcinogenic chemicals.78
Between 1962-1973, the U.S. Navy conducted hundreds of bio-chem tests known as
Operation SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). SHAD projects like Autumn Gold
and Copper Head exposed 10,000 navy personnel to aircraft spray laden with
biological and chemical warfare agents, including sarin nerve gas.79 The
cocktails used in those genocidal "tests" are now linked to cancer, heart and
lung problems suffered by surviving guinea pigs.
We are told that
defense officials perpetrated these atrocities so that scientists could learn
about how to "protect" Americans from attack. So why, in the late 80s, would our
"protectors" fall all over themselves to supply Saddam Hussein's war machine
with 90 shipments of chemical and biological weaponry, including sarin, anthrax,
botulism, brucella and West Nile Virus?80
It will likely be years before
Americans are told what is being tested upon them during our present
chemtrail/space wars era. The Hanford downwinders did not learn until 1986 what
had been unleashed upon them some 30 years earlier; SHAD victims filed suit in
2003 to learn the extent to which they were intentionally exposed to dangerous
substances in the 60s.
To understand
how our nation has arrived at this doomsday corruption, we must recall that
immediately after WWII ended, the U.S. government initiated Operation Paperclip
through which a large number of German Nazi scientists were imported to the
United States. Once issued new identities, these death industry pros were
employed in U.S. military laboratories to develop a dazzling array of secret
weaponry projects.81 With congressional funding, the crowning achievement of
this nexus was the creation of ghastly new bioweapons, including the AIDS
virus82 and an incapacitating chronic fatigue agent engineered from mycoplasma
and brucella.83
The military is empowered to continue lethal
experimentation by devious wording of Section 1520a Chapter 32 of U.S. Code
Title 50. The law states that the Secretary of Defense may NOT conduct any
chemical or biological test or experiment on civilian populations, unless such
tests are for medical, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial
purposes or for research in general or for protection against weapons or for law
enforcement purposes, including riot control. So DOD may not use us for guinea
pigs, unless it is for any "good" reason under the sun! The law states that
human subjects must give informed consent. But a nasty loophole in Section 1515
of Chapter 32 allows informed consent to be suspended by executive order during
a period of national emergency, a situation under which this nation perpetually
labors by deliberate hobgoblin design.
Few American test rats realize
that the Pentagon's boys in Congress have now:
* appropriated millions
of dollars for the manufacture and testing of new "mini nukes" and bunker buster
bombs.84
* authorized the DOE to resume nuclear testing in Nevada.85
* exempted DOD and DOE from landmark environmental laws in the
development of these new weapons.86
America's 70,000 nuclear weapons
manufactured since 1945 are not sufficient! As DOE gears up to develop and test
fourth-generation nukes, numerous reports continue to surface about the agency's
sordid corruption and mismanagement. DOE's habitual cover-up of site
contamination and its devious efforts to downplay serious illnesses suffered by
many of its nuclear workers are among recent scandals.87
When new "low
yield" nuclear weapons (defined as being smaller than 5 kilotons) are tested in
Nevada, downwinders might like to know that a mini .5 kiloton nuclear warhead
would have to burrow 150 feet to eliminate atmospheric fallout. No weapon yet
developed can penetrate more than 40 feet into the earth. A tested nuclear
warhead that burrows to only 40 feet will throw a million cubic feet of
radioactive debris into the atmosphere.88
The Pentagon's new nuke era is
in the capable hands of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has so ably
presided over the pre-emptive nuclear incineration of Middle Eastern Muslims.
Rumsfeld has never adequately explained why his Department was unable to defend
the Pentagon building despite a full hour's notice that hijacked planes were in
the air. Should Rumsfeld be replaced due to the Pentagon's Iraqi torture
scandal, we are assured that his Bush-appointed successor will share his
have-nuke-will-travel ideology.
Working closely with Rumsfeld is a coven
of pro-nukers, including his advisor Keith Payne, a vocal advocate of
pre-emptive nuclear war. Payne has written that an "intelligent" nuclear
offensive launched by the U.S. would result in only 20 million U.S. casualties,
"a level compatible with national survival and recovery."89
Now that we
have tied together the historical and political realities for which we
mindlessly wave our flags, we still hope that sufficient numbers of American lab
rats will miraculously awaken from their collective stupor and take stock of our
appalling situation. After all, rodents have a notoriously short life span and
are always killed when no longer useful to those conducting research. The irony
of this horror story is that we rats are being plundered to finance our own
demise. Our national debt of 7.2 trillion grows by $1.8 billion a day.90 The
Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 trillion of its shadowy transactions.91 The
radioactive operations in Iraq are costing $3.7 billion a month, those in
Afghanistan $900 million a month.92 No one knows how many $billions are being
flushed into Operation Cloverleaf and other hobgoblin projects. The U.S. spends
$11,000 per second on weapons, according to calculations of celebrated author
William Thomas.93
So, while we await the great awakening, have a
wonderful, barium-dried summer under a synthetic tarpaulin of aluminum-white,
particle-laden, electrically-charged aviation scum that passes for sky. Endure
well your respiratory and ocular difficulties while staring at huge oily sun
rings and smeary sundogs, the patent signature of chemical assault. Don't forget
to salute and click your heels when you see tanker formations patriotically
saturating the atmosphere with such a dense, micro-particulate brew that they
cast black shadows alongside or ahead of themselves.
As you witness the
noxious drama in the skies, remember, it's all just part of the "kill chain."