At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that “news” is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different – in [...]

Estimates of “the total number of people who have ever lived” published in the 2000s range approximately from 100 to 115 billion. An estimate of the total number of people who have ever lived was prepared by Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau in 1995 and subsequently updated in 2002; the updated figure was [...]

Translation: Active Measures Demoralization: Can you trust America’s most trusted news channel..? Destabilization: A little anarchy in the streets. Crisis: Terror. Confusion. Fear. Normalization: Deus ex machina. Manufactured chaos resolves, embrace the savior apparatchik. Why send troops where “journalists” will suffice?

NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

You make a false distinction between “politics” and “science,” one based on argument and the other on “objectivity.” They are of exactly the same form, conducted in exactly the same way, by exactly the same people. Both are done by humans, humans who want. Whatever truth is out there is barely detectable through the mist [...]

[via Steve Dekorte] This is literally targeting the Americans specifically and killing them. This cannot be done in this way. This is truly an extraordinary shift – it really highlights, by the way, that this isn’t just a left-or-right, Republican versus Democrat problem, this is something else altogether. – Former CIA Special Agent Jack Rice

Nelson, a 44-year-old white woman, keeps getting snared at the Canadian border because she apparently shares some key identifying information with a black man, possibly from Georgia, who is in trouble with the law. While such cases of mistaken identity at border points and airports are not unique, Nelson’s case is unusual in that only [...]

He asked who I was working for. I said I’m a freelance photojournalist working on assignment for ProPublica. He asked for verification of that so I showed him the letter from (ProPublica senior editor) Susan White. Officer Krietemeyer took down the information. Mr. Robison tried to dig at what the article was about, and I [...]

[via Everything is Terrible] Disappointed we ended up with Myers and not Nye? I was.