Author: mediahitman

This is a country whose people self-righteously criticize China for its human rights abuses. This is a country where the public has been aghast at Singaporean laws against chewing gum, and its “harsh” penalties for violations of the law. This is a country whose people have propagated rabid fear-mongering against Muslims, on the grounds Islam supports poor treatment of women and arbitrary and severe punishments (and I have argued in the past that American statism is not so unlike radical Islam).

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Did you know all 44 U.S. presidents have carried European royal bloodlines into office? 34 have been genetic descendants from just one person, Charlemagne, the brutal eighth century King of the Franks. 19 of them directly descended from King Edward III of England. In fact, the presidential candidate with the most royal genes has won every single American election.

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By Arikia Milikan WIRED If living in a college dorm for two months while you’re prodded by government officials in a “short-fuse, crucible-style environment” is your idea of summer fun, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency would like a word with you. Oh, and there’s $50,000 to be earned if you can help them algorithmically crack the problems they’ve run into while trying to interpret the massive amounts of surveillance data the Pentagon is now capable of collecting.

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