Filipinos, including expats, are buying lots of copies of the book Marcos Martial Law: Never Again, fearing that the new president, son of the late dictator Marcos, will suppress the memory of his crimes.

The UAE has convicted democracy campaigner Asim Ghafoor, who is a US citizen, of money laundering after a suspect trial.

He was arrested in a flight connection in Abu Dhabi. I recommend people avoid setting foot in Abu Dhabi's airport.

Another bizarre thing in this report is that it the accusation appears to have come initially from the US; but the US did not arrested him, instead it let him fly to Abu Dhabi airport and he was arrested there.

I suspect this represents dirty work.

The US has a pattern, since 2001, of persecuting Muslims that raise money in the US for charity in other countries. Try as they might, they get accused of terrorism, or violating financial regulations. Is that what happened here?

(satire) *New Windex Formula Removes Menacing Apparitions From Mirror.*

If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

*Yes, Republicans really did try to make abortion punishable by death.*

Already some places on Earth occasionally experience fatal weather, for short periods. But we know only theoretically at which point the combined heat and humidity (measured as the "wet bulb temperature") will kill a large fraction of humans.

I fear we will get clear empirical evidence about this question in the next 20 years.