Official Information Request to the NZDF Regarding the Phenomenon of Geo-Engineering, Weather Modification and Cloud Seeding
Ben Watkins made this Official Information request to New Zealand Defence Force
The request was refused by New Zealand Defence Force.
From: Ben Watkins
Dear New Zealand Defence Force,
Please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to geo-engineering, weather modification and Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation (SRM) with particular emphasis on cloud seeding, marine cloud brightening/engineering/seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI).
Additionally, please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to barium, nano aluminium-coated fibreglass (known as chaff), radioactive thorium, cadmium, chromium, copper sulphate, nickel, strontium, graphene, desiccated blood, mould spores, yellow fungal mycotoxins, ethylene dibromide and polymer fibres with relation to their uses, or potential uses, in geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.
And Finally, please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to any mention of smart particles, nano machines, nano aerosols, nano-particulates or nano-sized aluminium particles with relationship, if any, to geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Watkins
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Defence Force
Good afternoon Ben
Your request below has been received and a decision on your request will be provided as soon as possible and no later than 6 September 2024. Responses to requests for information that are considered to be in the wider public interest will be published on the New Zealand Defence Force website (www.nzdf.mil.nz).
Regards
Corporate and Ministerial Services
OCDF, Office of Chief of Defence Force
New Zealand Defence Force
www.nzdf.mil.nz
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From: Ben Watkins [mailto:[FOI #27984 email]]
Sent: Friday, 9 August 2024 12:50 p.m.
To: Ministerial Services <[NZDF request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Official Information Request to the NZDF Regarding the Phenomenon of Geo-Engineering, Weather Modification and Cloud Seeding
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Dear New Zealand Defence Force,
Please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to geo-engineering, weather modification and Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation (SRM) with particular emphasis on cloud seeding, marine cloud brightening/engineering/seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI).
Additionally, please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to barium, nano aluminium-coated fibreglass (known as chaff), radioactive thorium, cadmium, chromium, copper sulphate, nickel, strontium, graphene, desiccated blood, mould spores, yellow fungal mycotoxins, ethylene dibromide and polymer fibres with relation to their uses, or potential uses, in geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.
And Finally, please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to any mention of smart particles, nano machines, nano aerosols, nano-particulates or nano-sized aluminium particles with relationship, if any, to geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Watkins
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From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Defence Force
Good afternoon Ben,
Please find attached a response to your request.
Regards
Corporate and Ministerial Services
OCDF, Office of Chief of Defence Force
New Zealand Defence Force
www.nzdf.mil.nz
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Watkins [mailto:[FOI #27984 email]]
Sent: Friday, 9 August 2024 12:50 p.m.
To: Ministerial Services <[NZDF request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Official Information Request to the NZDF Regarding the Phenomenon of Geo-Engineering, Weather Modification and Cloud Seeding
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Dear New Zealand Defence Force,
Please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to geo-engineering, weather modification and Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation (SRM) with particular emphasis on cloud seeding, marine cloud brightening/engineering/seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI).
Additionally, please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to barium, nano aluminium-coated fibreglass (known as chaff), radioactive thorium, cadmium, chromium, copper sulphate, nickel, strontium, graphene, desiccated blood, mould spores, yellow fungal mycotoxins, ethylene dibromide and polymer fibres with relation to their uses, or potential uses, in geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.
And Finally, please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to any mention of smart particles, nano machines, nano aerosols, nano-particulates or nano-sized aluminium particles with relationship, if any, to geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Watkins
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Ben Watkins left an annotation ()
"This response from NZDF does not equal having no information on this topic. I wonder why the response was worded in that particular way and not something more akin to “NZDF has no information on this topic and has no grounds for believing that it is held by another department.” Not implying that they are hiding anything, but that would be the correct response if 18(g) of the act applied."
I wholeheartedly agree with your observation. Just because the NZDF are not engaging in these activities, does NOT, therefore mean that they aren't aware of what parties may be engaged in such activities or that they don't hold any information regarding these activities.
My observations, which I have been documenting, show Air New Zealand and Jetstar A320-232 aircraft conducting these operations in a deliberate and systematic manner; and I find it highly unlikely that the NZDF doesn't know about it. If, for arguments sake, they are completely unaware of it, then they are failing in their primary duty to protect the territory of New Zealand and its peoples from potentially hostile activities.
Chris McCashin left an annotation ()
Interesting answer - unfortunately this agency like all the other agencies asked say they are not aware / involved in these activities yet will not provide the information they hold on file. NIWA who I have repeatedly asked initially tried to say that had no information, then when I caught them out said they had too much information and wanted to charge me. I’m still battling them stonewalling me. There is ample evidence it’s occurring and has been for sometime, really ramped up recently with these extreme waether events and Aluminium in waterways and if the agencies aren’t directly involved they are turning a blind eye and are aware of it and whose doing it. And given the last few years we have to assume they are hiding things. Have the institutions always been this corrupt / compromised or has it only been exposed following events of last few years?!
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“The New Zealand Defence Force does not engage in any of the activities described in your request. Your request is therefore declined in accordance with section 18{g) of the OIA.”
This response from NZDF does not equal having no information on this topic. I wonder why the response was worded in that particular way and not something more akin to “NZDF has no information on this topic and has no grounds for believing that it is held by another department.” Not implying that they are hiding anything, but that would be the correct response if 18(g) of the act applied.
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