Resolved: Hurricane Katrina was likely a Conspiracy.

I thank my opponent for accepting this debate an do hope that it lives up to expectationsContention 1: Telsa and HAARPSubpoint 1: Telsa's ConnectionsIn 1934, Telsa announces that he has discovered a death ray and also says he's invented a high frequency transmitter which can alter the ionosphere and control weather.In 1943, Tesla dies and all of his personal papers and belongings are seized by men calling themselves "federal agents". For 37 years, whenever public requests for Tesla"s files are made the FBI denies it has any knowledge of their whereabouts. Military intelligence and The Library of Congress also deny ever holding Tesla"s files. 1989: The FBI declassifies the last pages of its Tesla file. It reveals that Nikola Tesla contacted the U.S. Department of War a day before his death. It also reveals that the FBI asked the Office of Alien Property to seize all of Tesla"s belongings despite the fact that it had no authority to do so. 1990: The U.S. government starts research project HAARP. It is based on Tesla"s weather control designs. [1]Subpoint 2: HAARPHAARP stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. Here they shoot High Frequency radio transmittions into the atmosphere and can go up to 350 kilometers in altitude. That's when they create plasmas in the atmosphere. [2] That's how they alter the Earth's atmosphere. Here is a diagram of what happens. It has been reported that HAARP sends billions of watts in the 2.8-8.2 MHz range into the ionosphere, which isn't healthy for the ionosphere and can create "holes" per say in the sky much of those like the ones in the Ozone. (THough it's not exactly the same that's just a comparission) Contention 2: HAARP caused KatrinaNASA has discovered that only three Hurricanes in Human history have produced lightening and they are; Katrina, Rita, and Emily. NASA has also found that Hurricanes on their own over open water cannot create their own electricity, because they do not produce electrical fields. It's simply, because Hurricanes do not have verticle winds, they have horizontal winds. Blakeslee, a NASA sciencetist, has said, "Hurricanes are most likely to produce lightning when they're making landfall, But there were no mountains beneath the "electric hurricanes" of 2005—only flat water." [3] HAARP's home page states that all are welcome to come observe it's station in Alaska, but many were actually turned away like former Minnesota Govenor Jesse Ventura. [4]Also why was the HAARP organization at their highest activity in their history before Katrina? Contention 3: HAARP has also caused Hurricane SandyIn 1997, HAARP created a Hurricane 'Drill' called Hurricane Sandy in Rodchester, NY. But during Hurricane Sandy, the real one, HAARP's frequencies were off the chart and you'll never believe where they were the most frequent. At the heart of the Hurricane. [5] Contention 4: Motive?Now you must be asking yourself why in the world would HAARP want to do something like this. The answer is very simple. To help the US economy. Hurricanes cause massive destruction, but it gives the community jobs in construction and pumps hundreds of thousands of dollars into the insurence industry. We all know how the US economy was starting to fall into a recession in the mid 2000's. One year after Hurricane Katrina the US economy rating went from B+ to A. [6] The GDP went from down 4% for the first three months after Katrina to down 1.4% for the finial months of 2005 and then for the first 3 months of 2006 the GDP was up by 5.6% and gas prices fell under $3 a gallon and the economy began to look like it was on the upturn. [6]Sources1. ( http://beforeitsnews.com...) 2. (http://www.haarp.alaska.edu...) [use way back machine]3. (http://science.nasa.gov...) 4. (http://juneauempire.com...) 5. (http://www.skyshipsovercashiers.com...) 6. (http://abcnews.go.com...)