How many poor people in the world must die before we consider this a “crime against humanity”? – open letter from 100 Nobel Laureates
I think this video, made in 1899, might be the oldest one I’ve ever featured on this site (though the soundtrack is 21st-century). The director, Georges Melies, is perhaps best remembered for “A Trip to the Moon” (or at least one famous image from the film); he invented many special effects, a number of them visible here, which were used for a century until replaced by CGI. The links above the video were provided by Clarissa, Emma Camp, Ronald Bailey, Radley Balko, and IncarcerNation (x3), in that order.
- R.I.P. Terry Carter.
- Your “leaders” refer to this “correction”.
- Greenpeace blinds half a million children a year.
- Do I really need to say, “Not because there are bugs outside”?
- Cops now refer to the murder of homeless people as “outreach”.
- Summary execution is becoming the de facto penalty for any crime.
- Cops murder man by intentionally running over him with a pigmobile.
From the Archives
- Uber wants its drivers to spy on riders and rat sex workers out to the pigs.
- At least some reporters are finally getting skeptical of this popular excuse.
- Should’ve donned his magical Clown Costume of Legal Invulnerability 1st.
- “Disciplinary action” for UK rapist cops can be early retirement at full pay.
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to commit rape.
- Canada is following Australia and the US in trying to destroy the internet.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- Wise judge refuses to allow prudish paternalism to trump human needs.
- To the state, facial recognition’s false positives are a feature, not a bug.
- Surveillance pretexts won’t remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- It’s ironic that the newest target of “sex trafficking” scarelore is Target.
- Profiteers will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- It’s unusual for prohibitionists to admit they’re targeting black people.
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- This has been going on for years, and platforms do nothing to stop it.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- Cops, air hostesses, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, and much more.
- Another study proves what sex workers have been saying all along.
- Even seemingly-consensual sex with a cop may be something else.
- Modern fascism has spun a terrifyingly-extensive surveillance net.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- Non-cop molester exploits grooming scheme for predatory cops.
- Another specimen of the garbage the state pays to violate kids.
- Big websites could curtail totalitarian threats if they wanted to.
- If a non-cop did this, would his sentence merely be demotion?
- Politicians are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies.
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- Twelve years of puritanism badly disguised as “public health”.
- Puritans never quite admit they want to destroy the internet.
- The worse the idea, the more eager politicians are to ape it.
- This is the first honest thing he’s said since he was caught.
- Infantilizing victims of sexual assault does not help them.
- It’s not like they’ve ever been secretive about their goals.
- Pigs in schools are a menace which should be abolished.
- Pay no attention to that pervert behind the picket fence.
- This tendency has only worsened over the past decade.
- Big heroes prove their manhood by terrorizing women.
- Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system.
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- The last part of the framework for my annex roof.
- Prohibitionists want this to happen more often.
- On wings, colors, and looking-glass partisans.
- The FOSTA challenge is proceeding yet again.
- Rapist cops of the week, including Scotland.
- Cops, Kevin, Neal Adams, and much more.
- No, that woman wasn’t “praying to Shrek”.
- I expand my paddock to the north lawn.
- Another Australian state sees the light.
- Spring is my second-favorite season.
- A proper ceiling for my new shower.
- Cops, Billie Hayes, and much more.
- Shifting from telling to showing.
- Bad Chicken Diaries.
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