Vexen Crabtree
@humantruth.info
Independent try-hard, intent on making the world a better place.
No AI content; although the underlying data behind international statistics is analyzed and commented on methodically, this is the output of a hands-on-keyboard human being!
No AI content; although the underlying data behind international statistics is analyzed and commented on methodically, this is the output of a hands-on-keyboard human being!
Since 2000, global life expectancy has risen by 6.3 years, and in 2019 was 73.1 years. See international comparisons over time:
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Life Expectancy and Longevity
Life Expectancy and Longevity: We are all slowly living longer and healthier lives; with the exceptions of a few countries with social and health issues (USA), and the AIDS epidemic in Africa, trends ...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Since 2000, global life expectancy has risen by 6.3 years, and in 2019 was 73.1 years. See international comparisons over time:
www.humantruth.info/life_expecta...
www.humantruth.info/life_expecta...
Britain ruled #Palestine from 1920 & tried to manage immigrating Jews by deceiving Arab communities, triggering the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt &and the 1944+ Jewish revolt. In 1948, the UN declared partition & the creation of #Israel, triggering the Arab<>Israel war.
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British Rule of Palestine and the Single-State Solution (1920s-1947)
British Rule of Palestine and the Single-State Solution (1920s-1947): The UK made contradictory promises to Arabs and Jews, forcing a series of clashes, until it gave up, and prompted the division of ...
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January 25, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Britain ruled #Palestine from 1920 & tried to manage immigrating Jews by deceiving Arab communities, triggering the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt &and the 1944+ Jewish revolt. In 1948, the UN declared partition & the creation of #Israel, triggering the Arab<>Israel war.
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Do make time to read @mark-carney.bsky.social's speech at Davos - along with annotations from @jfallows.bsky.social. "At this, the crowd spontaneously stood and cheered. While watching, I thought: This is how a leader should speak." fallows.substack.com/p/a-speech-f...
A Speech for the History Books.
And for the here and now. A memorable discourse on America's place in the world, by the leader of a US neighbor and former friend.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Do make time to read @mark-carney.bsky.social's speech at Davos - along with annotations from @jfallows.bsky.social. "At this, the crowd spontaneously stood and cheered. While watching, I thought: This is how a leader should speak." fallows.substack.com/p/a-speech-f...
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
Section 9 shows #Iran to have >98% rate of religious belief when people are asked in official polls about their religion. It's not a country you want to be singled-out in. But as of 10 years ago at least, the actual quantity of people going to mosques was declining.
www.humantruth.info/iran.html
www.humantruth.info/iran.html
Iran (Islamic Republic of Iran)
Iran (Islamic Republic of Iran): A comparison of international statistics, concentrating on Social and Moral issues.
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January 20, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Section 9 shows #Iran to have >98% rate of religious belief when people are asked in official polls about their religion. It's not a country you want to be singled-out in. But as of 10 years ago at least, the actual quantity of people going to mosques was declining.
www.humantruth.info/iran.html
www.humantruth.info/iran.html
#Iran was added to the USA State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism in 1984 for its actions (e.g. Beirut 1983) & in the 1990s was /the/ premier supporter of #terrorism, providing $100m/year to Islamic terrorists in 1998 alone, mostly #Hezbollah.
www.humantruth.info/iran.html
www.humantruth.info/iran.html
Iran (Islamic Republic of Iran)
Iran (Islamic Republic of Iran): A comparison of international statistics, concentrating on Social and Moral issues.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:24 PM
#Iran was added to the USA State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism in 1984 for its actions (e.g. Beirut 1983) & in the 1990s was /the/ premier supporter of #terrorism, providing $100m/year to Islamic terrorists in 1998 alone, mostly #Hezbollah.
www.humantruth.info/iran.html
www.humantruth.info/iran.html
Final post on #Libya: From the 1960s to the 1970s, it made substantial improvements to its infant mortality rate (the 3rd most improved in the world in that period).
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#infantmortality
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#infantmortality
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya): A comparison of international statistics, concentrating on Social and Moral issues.
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January 19, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Final post on #Libya: From the 1960s to the 1970s, it made substantial improvements to its infant mortality rate (the 3rd most improved in the world in that period).
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#infantmortality
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#infantmortality
#Libya had the 3rd-highest average #fertility rate in the world in the 1970s (after #Yemen and #Rwanda) despite being amongst only 7 countries who saw it drop by more than 5 since the 1960s. Its peak fertility rate was 8.13 in 1971.
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya): A comparison of international statistics, concentrating on Social and Moral issues.
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January 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM
#Libya had the 3rd-highest average #fertility rate in the world in the 1970s (after #Yemen and #Rwanda) despite being amongst only 7 countries who saw it drop by more than 5 since the 1960s. Its peak fertility rate was 8.13 in 1971.
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#Libya under #Gaddafi used oil in the 1970s-80s to fight #Marxism & #capitalism via violence, earning Libya a place on US State Sponsors of #Terrorism list. He significantly funded the IRA, involved in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, leading to UN sanctions.
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya): A comparison of international statistics, concentrating on Social and Moral issues.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
#Libya under #Gaddafi used oil in the 1970s-80s to fight #Marxism & #capitalism via violence, earning Libya a place on US State Sponsors of #Terrorism list. He significantly funded the IRA, involved in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, leading to UN sanctions.
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
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Momentum is clearly shifting - Europeans want deeper military integration and a stronger EU action on defense to confront today's global crises!
We are still dangerously dependent on US military power - and it's a risk we can't afford. We need an EU army 🇪🇺
We are still dangerously dependent on US military power - and it's a risk we can't afford. We need an EU army 🇪🇺
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Momentum is clearly shifting - Europeans want deeper military integration and a stronger EU action on defense to confront today's global crises!
We are still dangerously dependent on US military power - and it's a risk we can't afford. We need an EU army 🇪🇺
We are still dangerously dependent on US military power - and it's a risk we can't afford. We need an EU army 🇪🇺
#Yemen, #Iran and #Libya are the only three countries not to have enacted the 2016 Paris Agreement on curbing climate change.
See section 6 for eight tables comparing Libya's performance on the environment to the rest of the world:
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#environmentalism
See section 6 for eight tables comparing Libya's performance on the environment to the rest of the world:
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#environmentalism
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya): A comparison of international statistics, concentrating on Social and Moral issues.
www.humantruth.info
January 19, 2026 at 7:09 PM
#Yemen, #Iran and #Libya are the only three countries not to have enacted the 2016 Paris Agreement on curbing climate change.
See section 6 for eight tables comparing Libya's performance on the environment to the rest of the world:
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#environmentalism
See section 6 for eight tables comparing Libya's performance on the environment to the rest of the world:
www.humantruth.info/libya.html
#environmentalism
The Japanese apocalyptic cult #Aum in 1995 Aum released sarin nerve gas on several Tokyo subway lines, killing 13 people and wounding 3976.
www.humanreligions.info/aum.html
#japan #religiousviolence #religion
www.humanreligions.info/aum.html
#japan #religiousviolence #religion
Aum Shinrikyō
Aum Shinrikyō: Apocalyptic cult, infamous for its deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995.
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January 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The Japanese apocalyptic cult #Aum in 1995 Aum released sarin nerve gas on several Tokyo subway lines, killing 13 people and wounding 3976.
www.humanreligions.info/aum.html
#japan #religiousviolence #religion
www.humanreligions.info/aum.html
#japan #religiousviolence #religion
Easter Island's current threat is 70k tourists a year: far too many for an island with no sewerage system. Rubbish, erosion & pollution are creating an ugly mess just for some photos & beaches that could both be obtained from closer shores.
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#rapanui #tourism
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#rapanui #tourism
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Famous for its ancient stone heads, and an early example of how deforestation led to collapse.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Easter Island's current threat is 70k tourists a year: far too many for an island with no sewerage system. Rubbish, erosion & pollution are creating an ugly mess just for some photos & beaches that could both be obtained from closer shores.
www.humantruth.info/easter_islan...
#rapanui #tourism
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#rapanui #tourism
The case of Easter Island is a tiny microcosm of what we are doing to the planet; although re-forestation is a growing reality in a good portion of developed countries, the sheer quantity of forests that we have lost is unfathomable.
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#deforestation #sustainability
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#deforestation #sustainability
Deforestation
Deforestation: Driven by land clearing for cattle and agriculture, the need to feed us all is killing the rainforests, building up a growing tidal wave of issues for future generations.
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January 15, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The case of Easter Island is a tiny microcosm of what we are doing to the planet; although re-forestation is a growing reality in a good portion of developed countries, the sheer quantity of forests that we have lost is unfathomable.
www.humantruth.info/deforestatio...
#deforestation #sustainability
www.humantruth.info/deforestatio...
#deforestation #sustainability
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is "the most remote habitable scrap of land in the world", famous for carved-stone head statues. But they effected complete deforestation by 1700 and several thousand starved.
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#rapanui #easterisland #deforestation #sustainability
www.humantruth.info/easter_islan...
#rapanui #easterisland #deforestation #sustainability
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Famous for its ancient stone heads, and an early example of how deforestation led to collapse.
www.humantruth.info
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is "the most remote habitable scrap of land in the world", famous for carved-stone head statues. But they effected complete deforestation by 1700 and several thousand starved.
www.humantruth.info/easter_islan...
#rapanui #easterisland #deforestation #sustainability
www.humantruth.info/easter_islan...
#rapanui #easterisland #deforestation #sustainability
The 'New' page, over time, has built up a long history of HTF material: www.humantruth.info/new.html .
Human Truth Foundation: What's New and Site History
Human Truth Foundation: What's New and Site History: A think tank publishing webpages on rationalism, skepticism, philosophy, international politics, religious studies and other topics.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
The 'New' page, over time, has built up a long history of HTF material: www.humantruth.info/new.html .
Decade after decade, circumstance, bad luck and the active interference of the #UK, #Israel, others but most of all, the #USA, have prevented #Palestine from being recognized as an Independent State. This page lists those obstacles.
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www.humantruth.info/palestine_st...
Why Does Palestine Struggle to Be a Recognized State?
Why Does Palestine Struggle to Be a Recognized State?: Since the 1920s, the Palestinian people have never had a single identity until the 1960s, when the USA has vetoed them at the UN.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Decade after decade, circumstance, bad luck and the active interference of the #UK, #Israel, others but most of all, the #USA, have prevented #Palestine from being recognized as an Independent State. This page lists those obstacles.
www.humantruth.info/palestine_st...
www.humantruth.info/palestine_st...
Ironically, the concept of #heaven inspires rather a lot of #evil. Attaining it is a consistent feature of religious #terrorists and occurs again & again in the proclamations of those who murder and mutilate for god.
www.humanreligions.info/heaven.html
#religion #violence
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#religion #violence
Theological Problems with Heaven, Paradise and Nirvana
Theological Problems with Heaven, Paradise and Nirvana: Free will and the problem of evil are contradictory given the existence of angels in heaven.
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January 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Ironically, the concept of #heaven inspires rather a lot of #evil. Attaining it is a consistent feature of religious #terrorists and occurs again & again in the proclamations of those who murder and mutilate for god.
www.humanreligions.info/heaven.html
#religion #violence
www.humanreligions.info/heaven.html
#religion #violence
I've shortened the Introduction to #TheFlood story as featured in #Genesis; still 3 paragraphs, but slightly shorter ones!
www.humanreligions.info/the_flood.html
#christianity #mesopotamia
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#christianity #mesopotamia
Noah, the Ark and the Flood, from the Bible Book of Genesis
Noah, the Ark and the Flood, from the Bible Book of Genesis: Contains complete Old Testament text in two side-by-side translations. By Vexen Crabtree
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January 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I've shortened the Introduction to #TheFlood story as featured in #Genesis; still 3 paragraphs, but slightly shorter ones!
www.humanreligions.info/the_flood.html
#christianity #mesopotamia
www.humanreligions.info/the_flood.html
#christianity #mesopotamia
A brief history of the #Nizari, who came to be known as the #Assassins for their long and effective campaigns of religious-political murders, attempting to be the ones to usher in paradise on Earth via shifting the balance of powers on Earth.
www.humanreligions.info/assassins.html
www.humanreligions.info/assassins.html
The Nizari (Assassins)
The Nizari (Assassins): Their directed murders generated the infamous English word, so well-known were this Islamic group for its religious-political killings.
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January 3, 2026 at 11:36 PM
A brief history of the #Nizari, who came to be known as the #Assassins for their long and effective campaigns of religious-political murders, attempting to be the ones to usher in paradise on Earth via shifting the balance of powers on Earth.
www.humanreligions.info/assassins.html
www.humanreligions.info/assassins.html
The #Thuggae were an Indian cult 7th-19thC, who dedicated their lives to gaining victims' trust and ritualistically strangling them as sacrifices to #Kali , to keep the world in balance. The victims and the Thuggae were assured places in the afterlife.
www.humanreligions.info/thuggae.html
www.humanreligions.info/thuggae.html
The Thuggae
The Thuggae: A murderous secret society who strangled victims as sacrifices to Kali, the Thugs existed in India for hundreds of years, until the 19th century.
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January 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
The #Thuggae were an Indian cult 7th-19thC, who dedicated their lives to gaining victims' trust and ritualistically strangling them as sacrifices to #Kali , to keep the world in balance. The victims and the Thuggae were assured places in the afterlife.
www.humanreligions.info/thuggae.html
www.humanreligions.info/thuggae.html
#Iceland granted commercial hunting of 418 fin & minke whales over 5yrs but demand is too low. Although its whaling families are immune to moral arguments, they're subject to markets, so aren't hunting. The less the demand, the fewer precious #whales are killed.
www.humantruth.info/iceland_envi...
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Iceland's Responsibility Towards The Environment
Iceland's Responsibility Towards The Environment: Statistics on Responsibility Towards The Environment in Iceland, as part of overall national development, compared to the world and its region.
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January 2, 2026 at 10:13 PM
#Iceland granted commercial hunting of 418 fin & minke whales over 5yrs but demand is too low. Although its whaling families are immune to moral arguments, they're subject to markets, so aren't hunting. The less the demand, the fewer precious #whales are killed.
www.humantruth.info/iceland_envi...
www.humantruth.info/iceland_envi...
Added section 6.6: Trials by Ordeal. These torturous and chaotic devices were administered by the Christian Church as a way of calling on God to issue judgement, especially in the 8th-13th centuries.
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#darkages #christianity #ordeals
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#darkages #christianity #ordeals
Christian Moral Theory and Morality in Action: Biblical Morals and Social Disaster
Christian Moral Theory and Morality in Action: Biblical Morals and Social Disaster: Christianity has had a seriously negative effect on societal morality, and the Bible's teachings range from dubious ...
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January 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Added section 6.6: Trials by Ordeal. These torturous and chaotic devices were administered by the Christian Church as a way of calling on God to issue judgement, especially in the 8th-13th centuries.
www.humanreligions.info/christian_mo...
#darkages #christianity #ordeals
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#darkages #christianity #ordeals
In full in ch7.1: The Danish #Norse who settled in #Greenland starved after converting to #Christianity: they used too many resources to build churches & prejudice against non-Christians prevented trade or cultural exchange with the Inuit, who knew how to survive.
www.humantruth.info/greenland.html
www.humantruth.info/greenland.html
Greenland
Greenland: A comparison of international statistics, concentrating on Social and Moral issues.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
In full in ch7.1: The Danish #Norse who settled in #Greenland starved after converting to #Christianity: they used too many resources to build churches & prejudice against non-Christians prevented trade or cultural exchange with the Inuit, who knew how to survive.
www.humantruth.info/greenland.html
www.humantruth.info/greenland.html
Added reason 5/6 to the list of arguments for #vegetarianism : Growing vegetables for direct consumption is more efficient than using them to raise animals for meat in terms of resources, time and nutrition (including proteins).
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www.humantruth.info/vegetarianis...
The Benefits and Dangers of Vegetarianism
The Benefits and Dangers of Vegetarianism: Nutrition, human health, food, animal rights and synthetic meat; which products are best for the environment?
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December 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Added reason 5/6 to the list of arguments for #vegetarianism : Growing vegetables for direct consumption is more efficient than using them to raise animals for meat in terms of resources, time and nutrition (including proteins).
www.humantruth.info/vegetarianis...
www.humantruth.info/vegetarianis...