This might be the most awesomely bizarre news article I've seen...well, ever.
Although I'd suggest that if the Pakistan Daily wants to keep putting English-language content on their website, they should invest in some better translators, the language errors aren't what I'm talking about here.
I don't need to discuss the language because everything else in this story is ten times more surreal.
First off, a beam fired into the atmosphere by Americans at the HAARP station in Norway has created an "unimpeded thermal inversion" - which actually makes more sense than the first three times I read that phrase as "unimpeded thermal invasion".
And what has this inversion done to us? Well, it's responsible for every natural disaster or unusual weather spell we've seen in the last few weeks.
How do we know this?
...well, we don't.
Yes, Russian scientists (bastions of credibility when described so generally) have informed their President that the HAARP beam has caused an inversion.
And yes, Anthony Nunan has correctly read a few forecasts and discovered that there's a fair bit of crazy weather going on right now.
But that's it. The two stories are in no way linked - it's the equivalent of "Tiger Woods gets hit with golf club" and "Tiger Woods' wife doesn't play golf" combining to form a story of "golf club sales rise".
Then we get a global weather report and a bit of editorializing about how the West has a god complex.
Is all news in Pakistan this fun?
--Ryan
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