Fire and FloodWeather Modification and the Patterns We Can No Longer IgnoreJoshua Stylman
Jul 17, 2025
Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a housing plan for the fire-devastated Palisades. Not housing for the people who just lost their million-dollar homes, but low-income housing to be built on the torched land.
I'm all for affordable housing. But isn't it curious that after one of the most expensive neighborhoods in America burns down, the "recovery" plan immediately transforms it into something completely different? The people who live there are still determining whether they can afford to rebuild, but somehow the state already has comprehensive plans ready for demographic replacement.
We're told it's recovery. But the only thing being recovered is control—by the same forces that always benefit.
It makes you wonder: Is this disaster response, or disaster capitalism?
It's starting to look like a playbook. Across crisis after crisis, we see the same sequence: weaken infrastructure, enable catastrophe, replace the community. Whether this represents coordinated planning or opportunistic exploitation of crisis situations, the outcomes remain similar. It's an environmentally driven regime change by another name.
What if the disasters themselves aren't natural?
The Scale of What's HappeningExtraordinary flooding has been sweeping the nation. In Texas, unprecedented storms triggered catastrophic flooding.
In New Mexico, monsoon rains triggered devastating flash floods.
In Chicago, a single storm dumped over 5 inches of rain in 90 minutes, forcing residents to climb to rooftops as streets became rivers
New Jersey flash floods killed two people and forced water rescues of 40 others in chest-high flooding.
Across the river in New York, subway stations flooded as stormwater rushed onto platforms, stranding thousands of travelers above and below ground.
Florida recorded 25,000 lightning strikes in 24 hours amid unusual atmospheric conditions.
The scale becomes clear when you see the national trend:
While meteorologists point to different causes, the sheer intensity and rapid succession of these 'unprecedented' events in different regions created a model for a nationwide crisis.
Which brings me to something documented, not speculated—something that should make every American question what's really happening with our weather.The Texas Documentation: Weather Modification Goes PublicDays earlier, Augustus Doricko made an admission that confirmed what weather modification researchers have long suspected. The 25-year-old CEO of Rainmaker Corporation, a Thiel Fellow with contracts to manipulate weather systems, posted on X that his company was actively seeding clouds over South Texas on July 2nd.
Forty-eight hours later, the Guadalupe River near Spring Branch rose to a peak of 40 feet, a nearly 28-foot rise in a matter of hours. The storm's toll was catastrophic: according to ABC News, more than 130 people died and more than 160 were still missing as search efforts continued.
Investigative journalist Celia Farber documented Doricko's background and the anomalous precipitation, including reports of 'blue rain' falling across Texas that allegedly caused nausea and hallucinations when ingested. I had archived a few of these blue rain reports in late June as a weather oddity, weeks before the flooding brought them into focus.
But here's what makes this more than a tragic coincidence:
Rainmaker Corporation held official contracts with clients like the South Texas Weather Modification Association, part of a state-sanctioned program documented by the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation. These programs are licensed to conduct dozens of cloud-seeding operations annually, artificially creating millions of acre-feet of water. X researcher @In2ThinAir uncovered the official documentation proving these weather modification operations exist.
This was legal. Sanctioned. Taxpayer-funded weather manipulation.
Doricko's excuse for stopping early? Saturated clouds. They were pumping water into already oversaturated clouds during unstable weather conditions.
What happened next follows the script we've seen across other disasters. Investigation by @MorganC000 documented curious details that make you wonder about the official narrative:
Pre-Disaster Activity: On July 2, 2025—two days before the floods—over 50 US military and NASA aircraft clustered exactly over zones that would flood, including NASA's P-3B Orion and UAVSAR systems capable of advanced atmospheric monitoring. Despite this extensive monitoring presence, no public alerts were issued about the coming floods.
Land Context: Camp Mystic sits on some of the most valuable riverfront land in the Texas Hill Country, with a history of legal battles culminating in a confidential $7.2 million buyout. Questions arise about how disaster-related infrastructure destruction might affect ongoing land-use arrangements.
Rapid Corporate Response: Within days of the disaster, investment analysis positioned the floods as a catalyst for smart resilience markets, with companies like IBM Weather Company positioned for AI-driven flood modeling and surveillance deployment. Organizations like Team Rubicon, which uses Palantir Technologies for disaster relief operations, demonstrate how surveillance systems are integrated into emergency response infrastructure.
Weather Modification Acknowledgment: Rainmaker Corporation emerged claiming cloud seeding operations in the area—confirming weather modification activities while raising eyebrows about the scope of such programs. This follows the limited hangout strategy: when pressure builds, release part of the truth to contain the narrative.
@MorganC000's documentation reveals timing and coordination that challenge assumptions about natural disasters and emergency response. The questions her research raise should make us at least wonder about the narrative we’ve heard.
But we have to consider that Doricko's admission may itself be strategic misdirection. Geoengineering researcher Dane Wigington, speaking on Jimmy Dore's show, argues that Doricko functions as a "red herring" and "mass distraction"—like "what Oswald was to the JFK shooting." Wigington's analysis suggests that Doricko's small operations (5-10 pounds of material at most) couldn't cause Texas flooding. The real mechanism, according to recordings from Hurricane Harvey, involves NEXRAD frequency transmissions that hold moisture stationary over targeted areas by creating "repelling effects against air masses." They knew Harvey's path seven days in advance using this technology.
Last weekend, Texas Senate candidate Joseph Trahan tweeted that cloud seeding oversight in Texas is deliberately captured by unqualified political appointees. The Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation (TDLR), which approves all weather modification, operates through a 5-member Weather Modification Advisory Committee that includes some technical expertise, but ultimate authority rests with political appointees who lack comprehensive meteorological oversight compared to the previous system under the Texas Agriculture Commission.
During the Hill Country flooding,
flight logs show three companies operated simultaneously—not just Rainmaker. West Texas Weather Modification LLC and SOAR (Seeding Operations and Atmospheric Research) conducted hundreds of flights,
doing "more cloud seeding in the last year than many years combined" according to Trahan. While Rainmaker stopped July 2nd, the other companies continued throughout the flooding.
The critical question Trahan raises:
who paid for this unprecedented atmospheric intervention? TDLR oversight was stripped from the Texas Agriculture Commission in 1989, removing qualified meteorologists and farmers who understood weather impacts. Instead, political appointees now approve operations with far less comprehensive meteorological oversight than the previous system provided.This is where zooming out to examine what else was happening in the municipality becomes crucial.
Just months before the flooding, Kerr County had rejected a lithium battery storage project. Local opposition was fierce. The Kerrville City Council had already approved a $175 million power plant project in early 2024, but community resistance to lithium extraction remained strong.
The floods devastated the community that had opposed lithium projects. Questions now linger about how this tragedy might affect future energy development decisions in the area.
Smart city infrastructure planning was already underway in Kerrville before the disaster struck. According to Kerrville's 2050 Comprehensive Plan, published in 2018, the pieces were already in place.
Researchers attempting to analyze the data found that satellite weather data access had been restricted. The timing—restriction announced June 30th, floods beginning July 4th—adds another layer of complexity to understanding these events.
Questions worth asking:Did you authorize Rainmaker Corporation to manipulate weather above your home?
When did your community consent to weather modification experiments?
Did Congress authorize cloud seeding over flood zones?
Why was satellite weather data access restricted four days before the floods began?
What are the odds lithium extraction becomes viable exactly where flood damage occurred?
The Pattern Recognition MethodThis is what pattern recognition looks like: connecting documented capabilities with observable outcomes, then
asking why the same corporate players consistently benefit from disasters that follow weather modification activities in the same regions.And honestly, this stuff is tedious.
It's an administrative web that only lunatics like me spend months digging through—cross-referencing corporate filings, government contracts, timeline documentation, and satellite data. Normal people have lives to live. They shouldn't have to become investigative journalists to understand if their weather is being manipulated.I know this piece is long. Feel free to skim some of the details. But I have to show you the breadth of evidence because the pattern recognition method requires it. A few coincidences could just be chance—in fact, there's a group of 'coincidentalists' who will still make that case even after seeing clear examples. But can you honestly get there after seeing all of this? I can't.This is what I call the accumulation effect:
each individual piece might be dismissible in isolation, but the sheer volume and consistency makes denial increasingly difficult. It's like building a legal case—you need overwhelming evidence to overcome reasonable doubt. One anomalous event? Opportunism. Two? Correlation. But dozens following similar sequences with the same corporate beneficiaries, impossible timing, and systemic failures? That becomes infinitesimally unlikely to explain as random chance.There's a cognitive threshold where the human brain can no longer process this as mere coincidence. Comprehensive documentation helps readers reach their own conclusions about what they're seeing.That's why I'm grateful for citizen investigators like MJTruthUltra, Vigilant Fox, JoshWalkos, In2ThinAir and others who compile these types of investigations and make the connections visible.
A few professional journalists like Naomi Wolf have been sounding alarms about weather manipulation and disaster capitalism, but most institutional media remains silent.
Without this network of obsessive documentation—mostly citizen investigators with some (minimal) professional support—most of this evidence would remain buried in corporate press releases and government archives.
In an era of captured institutions, citizen journalism may be the only force capable of exposing evidence that threaten democracy itself. When the fourth estate falls, we become the fifth estate—and no one is coming to save us but ourselves.
The Framework: Weather Modification Is RealAfter Hurricane Helene's extraordinary behavior in Asheville last September, I published my research on weather modification technology in Is Our Weather Being Manipulated? I had been tracking these capabilities for the last few years, but Asheville's meteorologically anomalous hurricane—maintaining devastating power 300+ miles inland through mountainous terrain—gave me the catalyst to publish what I’d been studying.
The evidence I documented was comprehensive: tons of patents and programs for atmospheric heating and hurricane steering, six states with anti-geoengineering legislation, corporate weather modification contracts operating nationwide, Bill Gates backing sun-dimming projects like SCoPEx, and government acknowledgments of Solar Radiation Management capabilities.
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military used Operation Popeye (1967-1972) to extend monsoon seasons by cloud seeding, disrupting enemy supply routes. Remember Forrest Gump's description of Vietnam rain? "One day it started raining and it didn't quit for 4 months... rain flew in sideways and sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath... and then just like that somebody turned off the rain and the sun come out."
That wasn't just Hollywood drama—it was Hollywood disclosure.
Government weather modification reports filed with NOAA—pronounced like the biblical Noah who warned of the coming flood. The irony writes itself. The agency tracking atmospheric manipulation shares a name with the world’s most famous flood survivor.
Just last week, the EPA unveiled a new "transparency portal" on contrails and geoengineering—Administrator Lee Zeldin promising "total transparency." Yet search USAspending.gov for "stratospheric aerosol intervention" and you'll find millions in federal funding flowing to Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research—highlighting the complexity of achieving true transparency across different federal agencies and funding streams.
Zeldin himself acknowledged the reality of these operations: "The enthusiasm for experiments that would pump pollutants into the high atmosphere has set off alarm bells here at the Trump EPA. Prior to now, EPA has never been this proactive to raise awareness about concerns with geoengineering." His admission confirms what pattern recognizers have been documenting—these aren't theoretical programs but active operations that even federal agencies now admit are concerning.
The timing is interesting. As awareness grows about potential links between weather modification and disaster responses, agencies appear to be managing public perception through selective transparency—admitting contrails are "human-made" while avoiding discussion of active programs.
On Tuesday, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced the Clear Skies Act, legislation to ban weather modification and geoengineering. Regardless of one's views on the sponsor, when sitting members of Congress file bills to prohibit atmospheric intervention, the issue has moved beyond theoretical debate into active policy. Whether this represents genuine political momentum or another form of strategic disclosure remains to be seen—but the institutional acknowledgment is significant.
This is now part of the public conversation. Nicole Shanahan recently exposed decades of secret geoengineering projects through whistleblower testimony from someone with "high-level security clearances" who worked with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NOAA, and the Intelligence Community. The whistleblower revealed that despite President Trump's 2020 directive to halt taxpayer-funded climate change initiatives, federal grants for solar radiation management and stratospheric aerosol injection are still being issued—the programs haven't stopped, they've just been rebranded.
Shanahan documented how UCAR has received over $230 million in direct federal awards, and how a 1979 report revealed "nearly 100 geoengineering projects" including "hurricane manipulation, radioactive and electromagnetically enhanced fog dispersal, microwave chaff deployment, supersonic ice nucleation, and conventional cloud seeding operations."
The capability isn't theoretical.
A 1996 U.S. Air Force report titled "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" predicted that by 2025, U.S. aerospace forces could "own the weather" by capitalizing on emerging technologies for war-fighting applications. Welcome to 2025. The timeline isn't coincidental....
Multiple officials, multiple years, same casual acknowledgment of weather control while the public remains in the dark. Curious, no?
Whether these represent isolated slips or evidence that weather modification has become routine enough to mention casually is unclear. But admitting capability is different from documenting implementation.
What I couldn't have predicted was how quickly we'd see active deployment. Texas proved these weren't theoretical programs but operational systems with deadly consequences. The question isn't whether weather modification exists—it's whether it's being deliberately used against American communities.
The evidence reveals a blueprint for disaster capitalism:
Half the country thinks extreme weather is climate change. The other half suspects something else but lacks the framework to understand what. Neither side can have an honest discussion about climate without acknowledging weather modification technology.
Texas proved the mechanism exists and is operational. But is it isolated, or systematic?
Asheville: When Hurricanes Do the Impossible
Hurricane Helene did something meteorologically extraordinary in September 2024. It maintained devastating power 300+ miles inland, far beyond typical hurricane behavior in mountainous terrain that usually breaks up hurricane systems. But the real story isn't just about unusual meteorology—it's about lithium, corporate resistance, and the elimination of community opposition through 'natural' disasterOne year before Hurricane Helene struck, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded Albemarle Corporation a $90 million grant to restart their Kings Mountain, North Carolina lithium mine. The official DoD announcement confirmed the September 12, 2023 contract, funded under Defense Production Act authorities using Inflation Reduction Act money, targeted "one of the few known hard rock lithium deposits in the U.S." The mine was expected to support manufacturing of 1.2 million electric vehicles annually—critical infrastructure for Biden's 2021 Executive Order requiring 50% of all vehicles to be electric by 2030. The Inflation Reduction Act had announced to the world that America would not concede lithium dominance to China, setting up an urgent national priority for domestic lithium extraction that made North Carolina's deposits strategically critical.
There was just one problem: the residents.
For years, communities across the lithium-rich region had been battling against reopening the mines. Piedmont Lithium had secured state-approved mining permits in Gaston County months before the hurricane, but local opposition remained fierce.
Corporate stakeholders—BlackRock, State Street, Capital Research Finance—had positioned themselves for massive lithium extraction, but community resistance blocked operations......
