Stuff below the fold

What can be cuter than baby Gorillas, lovingly cared for by keepers paid by rich Europeans and Americans?

yeah, because rescuing a "rare" cute animal is much more important to rich animal lovers than helping the 750 000 poor refugees nearby...

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Here it is, Conspiracy Lovers: Atlas Obscura reports on HAARP:

From a distance, it looks like a parking lot filled with over-sized television antennae. In actually it is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program or HAARP, a government research facility focused on physical and electrical properties of the earth's ionosphere. Set in the the beautiful Alaskan forest, HAARP is, to certain conspiracy theorists, neither a research program nor a TV antennae, but a weather control device, space weapon, or even a death ray.
Funded by DARPA, the United States Air Force, and the Navy, HAARP's projects involve superheating the ionosphere with high-frequency radio waves. This incited the suspicions of physicist Bernard Eastlund and a small group of other scientists in the 1990s, who expressed concern about HAARP's possible future use as a weapon. Russia also expressed concern and criticized HAARP as a "new integral geophysical weapon." The Russian government now operates a very similar facility known as the Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility.

I had always understood it was about changing weather systems so that soldiers would have better fighting weather, but never mind.   You can find lots of conspiracy theories about it on the internet...

 

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The Dancing Inmates of Cebu: Gangnam style!

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We couldn't harvest yesterday from rain ( a low pressure area off the coast) but today it is merely overcast, and they are going to the farm again, but I'm not sure if it is harvesting rice or planting organic veggies or drying the rice already harvested...

the internet however is going off and on, probably from storms yesterday.