The Noble Lie

Jesse Ventura and Nick Begich - Part 1

Jesse Ventura and Nick Begich - Part 2

Jesse Ventura's new show "Conspiracy Theory" dedicated an episode to HAARP. The amazing demonstration Begich does with Jesse Ventura is child's play; the military has already talked publicly about weaponization, and people have claimed to be victims of this very real technology for decades. In fact, this is a source of the infamous "tinfoil hat," the derogatory icon which hangs like an albatross around the neck of conspiratologists worldwide.

I learned of Nick Begich Jr. and read his book "Angels Don't Play This HAARP" a few years ago. Some people may be surprised to see that the brother of a US Senator has been one of the most persistent voices in the wilderness warning people against HAARP.

This video doesn't get into some of the very interesting facts surrounding the Begich family. Please bear with me while I play the crypto-political variant of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."

The father of Nick Begich Jr. was an Alaskan politician who made his way to the US House of Representatives. He died in a mysterious plane crash along with House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. Boggs is the member of the Warren Commission who supposedly defied Alan Dulles and his demand for secrecy, leaking information to Jim Garrison, the New Orleans prosecutor who tried to get to the bottom of the Kennedy assassination. (Incidentally, Kevin Bacon is in the film that immortalized Jim Garrison, Oliver Stone's "JFK.")

One more Kennedy connection: the fatal crash of Hale Boggs and Nick Begich Sr. was also the crash that prompted Congress to pass a law mandating emergency locator transmitters on all airplanes, an invention that should have saved the life of John Kennedy Jr., or at least dramatically reduced the amount of time his search party required.

Paul Wellstone died in a mysterious plane crash, too. Some have wondered why progressive Democrats seem to have such bad luck with airplanes.

I can't help but note one of the stated purposes of HAARP is to knock flying objects out of the sky.