Musings

want.

nprfreshair:

Journalist Annie Jacobsen, on a crash she says she learned about from a source, at Area 51: “The child-sized aviators in this craft [that crashed in New Mexico] were the result of a Soviet human experimentation program, and they had been made to look like aliens a la Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, and it was a warning shot over President Truman’s bow, so to speak. In 1947, when this would have originally happened, the Soviets did not yet have the nuclear bomb, and Stalin and Truman were locked in horns with one another, and Stalin couldn’t compete in nuclear weaponry yet, but he certainly could compete in the world of black propaganda — and that was his aim, according to my source…” [More]

I like the aliens theory better.

technipol:

Americans in prison

Offered in conjunction with an article in LA Progressive, which notes that ““More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began.”

“Most of that increase is due to the War on Drugs, a war waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color,” she said, even though studies have shown that whites use and sell illegal drugs at rates equal to or above blacks…

However change is to come, a big impediment will be the massive prison-industrial system. “If we were to return prison populations to 1970 levels, before the War on Drugs began,” she said, “more than a million people working in the system would see their jobs disappear.”

[via azspot]

Ouch.