Anyone that believes the massive funding of the HARP Project was for the benign purposes outlined in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP is truly gullible. A more accurate but still whitewashed explanation can be found here: https://www.wanttoknow.info/war/haarp_weather_modification_electromagnetic_warfare_weapons As for it being shutdown, the government swore the same for their TIA (Total Information Awareness) project, and we all know, thanks to Snowden, how that played out.