In some deep, dark corners of the internet, folks are crying foul at the weather, and pointing fingers at Uncle Sam.

Could it be, they wonder, a secret plan to pummel Texas with crippling rains, weakening its civilian defenders before the troops swoop in for operation Jade Helm on July 15? That's the latest from many of the first websites to foment Jade Helm fervor in Texas.

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"Speculation and actual evidence has been released in the last two days that has many believing that Texas is under attack with weather manipulation technology," wrote the website Intellihub, the "Civilian Intelligence Agency," on Wednesday. "Some believe the reason for this attack is to soften up the area in advance of Jade Helm 2015 going live."

The most recent attack, according to this perspective, would be Tropical Storm Bill, which appeared in the Gulf last weekend and made landfall Tuesday morning. Even before the storm struck, websites were sounding the alarm.

"HAARP Attack: Tropical Storm Bill to Get Stronger Over Texas," wrote the website Before It's News on Monday.

HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, is a real but decomissioned Alaska-based research facility for the U.S. Air Force that studied the highest levels of the atmosphere—or at least that's what they told NBC News in 2014. But a certain bloc believes it is a project for weather manipulation, from which the military can cast great storms unto their enemies.

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And this bloc is connecting the dots. Memorial Day floods. Rainiest May in Texas history. Tropical Storm Bill. Jade Helm 15. Something is afoot, conspiracy theorist say. Is this heavy-handed punishment for the sly Texans who saw through the thin veil of conspiracy by which Obama thought he could sneak his invasion forces into the Lone Star State?

The All News Pipeline opines: "From severe drought conditions to deadly storms and flooding, all in a little over a month, brings about the question of whether Texas is being deliberately targeted by weather warfare technology because of their resistance, very public resistance I might add, to the Jade Helm exercises scheduled."

Jade Helm is a seven-state 1,200-person military special operations drill which will bring among the nation's most elite warriors—Navy SEALS and Green Berets—to more than a dozen Texas cities for eight weeks. In March, fears spread online that the U.S. Military was deploying soldiers to Texas to suppress resistance ahead of the implementation of martial law. By May, rumors became so pervasive that Gov. Greg Abbott sought to qualm Texans' fear by ordering a branch of the Texas Military to monitor the exercise.

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Websites that once connected Jade Helm to a series of shuddered Walmarts and fantasies of a vast military-controlled underground tunnel network are the same ones now blaming the feds for Texas storms.

To their credit, weather manipulation technology is not pure fantasy. A lengthy list of patents posted on the website GeoEngineering Watch shows the concept has graced the minds of inventors for decades. The list includes 1920s ideas of processes for producing artificial fogs—now called a fog machine—and ranges to other newer technologies to seed clouds, make rain, reduce global warming, beam lasers between earthly stations and satellites to manipulate clouds and kill storms.

However a patent doesn't mean an idea's been produced, as evidenced by a 1952 patent for technology to dissipate typhoons and hurricanes which clearly never reached fruition.

The websites also point out a 1996 document hosted on a U.S. Military domain which argues that "US aerospace forces can 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications."

Cursory searches on Google on YouTube reveal a multitude of small online publications highly suspicious of the weather.

"Just a coincidence?" wondered Rumor Mill News on Tuesday. "Tropical Storm Bill is forecast to strike Texas (A Jade Helm state) which is undergoing a major HAARP attack."