Wired talks to a the founder of an anti-government extremist group who said that there was a "weather weapon deployed against Texas'. He also told the reporter his group is working eliminate Nexrad, which is the Next Generation Weather Radar system used by NOAA to detect precipitation, wind, tornadoes and thunderstorms, and also disable systems used by media outlets to broadcast weather updates.
Hours later after those posts, a man broke into an enclosure containing a radar system operated by News 9 in Oklahoma City, damaging its power supply and briefly knocking it offline. www.wired.com/story/texas- ...
-- WIRED (@wired.com) Jul 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods
www.theguardian.com
"I NEED SOMEONE TO LOOK INTO WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS," posted Pete Chambers, a former special forces commander and frequent fixture on the far right who once organized an armed convoy to the Texas border, along with documents he claimed to show government weather operations. "WHEN WAS THE LAST CLOUD SEEDING?"
Jayzus.
I remember the days when a weather event had assaulted a blue city or blue stae, and the GOP had said that it was God's punishment for their sins.
For example ...
US pastor, who believes floods are God's punishment, flees flooded home (2016)
www.bbc.com
... US pastor Tony Perkins, who believes natural disasters are sent by God to punish gay people, has fled his flooded home in Louisiana.
In 2015 he caused controversy when he agreed with a statement that natural disasters are sent by God as punishment for abortion and gay marriage. ...
Religious conservatives claim Katrina was God's omen, punishment for the United States (2005)
www.mediamatters.org
... In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, some religious conservatives have speculated that the storm was sent by God as an omen or as a punishment for America's alleged sins. Media Matters for America has documented such statements from three religious conservative media figures: Pat Robertson, Hal Lindsey, and Charles Colson.
Pat Robertson: Katrina linked to legalized abortion
On the September 12 broadcast of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club, host Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former Republican presidential candidate, linked Hurricane Katrina and terrorist attacks to legalized abortion: ...
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