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Ex post facto

Ex post facto is Latin for "after the fact", or, retroactively.
==In law==
It most often comes up in the context of a prohibition on ex post facto laws or enforcement of them — that is, if the law governing an activity is passed after the activity occurs, one cannot be retroactively punished. 
The most authoritative statement of this can be found in Article 11(2) of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights — "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed."
So if you've done a massive amount of masturbating on Monday, and they make it illegal on Tuesday, you won't get done for it. And if they introduce the death penalty for masturbating on the Wednesday, they can't kill you for it either. The lesson here, kids, is to make sure you keep up to date with the legislative programme of the legislature(s) that has jurisdiction over you and plan your self-love sessions accordingly.
==Predictions==
Ex post facto predictions (also known as vaticinium ex eventu, prophecy [derived from] the occurrence) are ones that are not made until the facts are available — i.e., explanations of events that sound "predictive" but are not made in advance of specific occurrences, but after them. Similarly, claiming given events fulfill prophecy after they occur allows wide leeway in interpretation, as opposed to interpreting the prophecy before the events and accurately predicting how they will occur.
It's easy to trick people into believing you made a true prediction, when in reality it was post facto. This can be done through clever misdirection and is often a trick used by mediums or other mind-readers. Cold readers can be quite good at getting people to reveal facts and then claiming that these facts were divined through psychic powers and were actually predicted. However, it doesn't always work. In 2009, mentalist Derren Brown attempted such a feat by "predicting" the results of the National Lottery draw. Using the same misdirection methods he uses in mental illusions and card tricks, he tried to convince the audience that he's predicted the results beforehand. However, most people seemed to see past the tomfoolery and clearly noticed that he revealed his "prediction" a few seconds after the result was shown — with the illusion being due to a camera trick.
==See also==
*Rule of law
*Nostradamus
*Clairvoyance
Category:Latin phrases
Category:Law
Examiner.com

Examiner.com is a multiuser blogging site owned by conservative mega-donor that presents itself as a news site. Don't be fooled.
Examiner.com pays its writers based (among other things) on pageviews.<capture>"Online Freelance Writing Jobs at Examiner.com"</capture> As a result, a lot of Examiner material tends to be sensationalistic to attract attention — positive or negative doesn't matter, it's all clicks. Headlines such as "U.S. to bomb moon on UFO witness John Lennon's birthday"http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-to-bomb-moon-on-ufo-witness-john-lennon-s-birthday and "Official disclosure of extraterrestrial life is imminent"http://www.examiner.com/article/official-disclosure-of-extraterrestrial-life-is-imminent are par for the course. You will see enthusiastic Examiner bloggers linkspamming furiously on other sites (to the point of being in Wikipedia's spam blacklisthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist since 2009https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist&diff=322349641&oldid=322293221), often touting their work as "media coverage" (and themselves as "journalists" or "the press""As a member of the press... TerryH (Essex County Elections 2010 Examiner)") rather than just a blog post they themselves wrote. Not that it pays very well — Writers Weekly considers it "just another pay-per-click meat market,"http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/005351_05062009.htmlhttp://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/005364_05132009.html exploiting writers to attract people to their site by paying them pennies.
Cranks and those with really bad critical thinking skills will link Examiner articles as if they're edited journalism rather than just some guy blogging. If you use an Examiner page as a reference for anything whatsoever, treat it with great caution. Not all Examiners are rubbish, but it's the way to bet. 
The domain name used to be owned by the San Francisco Examiner, a proper (if free and local) newspaper, which now uses sfexaminer.com. It's not clear what they were thinking when giving it up.
The Examiner runs print tabloid editions in several major cities, including Washington, D.C. Virtually all are freely distributed at mass transit stops and tend to run a local news or sports story as the main headline in an attempt to lure readers. The unlucky readers are bombarded with wingnut news articles and an editorial section which runs the full spectrum from moderate-right to far-right. 
==See also==
*Forbes.com, another multiuser blog pretending to be edited news
==External links==
*Examiner.com
==References==
Category:Media
Category:Blogs
Category:Clogosphere
Category:Internet kooks
Executive Order 13603

Executive Order 13603 means two things, depending on the person. In LoonyLand, it gave Obama permission to take away anything he wants, including private property.GOVT.CAN TAKE ANYTHING FROM US.EXEC ORDER 13603. EVEN MILITARY CONSCRIPTION'S YouTube In RealityVille, reading the whole goddamn thing shows otherwise.Executive Order 13603 
==Worst Possible Interpretation Dept.==
Of course, internet crackpots imagined that the purpose of the Order was to take their house, their pickup truck, and their guns, and then put them to work as slave labor. The boring truth is that Obama's Order was simply building on a previous bill called the which allows the government to control vital resources to ramp up defense industry production (such as it did during WWII) if the country is suddenly faced with a serious national emergency, real or imagined,Under some administrations, this could be supposedly lethal waves of Mexican immigrants. e.g. attack by aliens, global war, etc.Defense Production Act of 1950. wikisource.
For example, it could require Elon Musk to stop producing Tesla cars and start building military vehicles as fast as possible. Or it could require Microsoft to commit a sizeable number of resources to work at breaking an enemy code. If some company is sitting on a big supply of steel needed for war production, it allows the government to acquire the supply, and dictate the price it will pay for it. And if a scientist whose work is crucial to some new defense program is identified, the government could "draft" them to work on it. Again, most all of this was actually done during WWII, and few grumbled about it.
Also, the Defense Production Act was not new, and Obama didn't invent it. It's been in effect since the Truman Administration, and is routinely restated or added to by every new administration. Obama's restatement granted no authority to the President or the Cabinet that they didn’t already have under existing law.Hyped-up response to the NDRP held that President Obama issued an executive order giving the President "unprecedented powers in time of national emergency." Snopes.com
==Another Trump win?==
It appears that the looniest in Looneyland noticed that Obama's order is still in effect under Trump,Obama Executive Order 13603 Authorizes Slavery In The US which could indicate that Loony opinion will soon shift in favor of the Order.
==External links==
*Read it in context!
*A random image of Jackson Hole, WY
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:United States politics
Executive power and the War on Terror

In the War on Terror, it has become fashionable in certain circles to claim more and more unlimited powers for the chief executive of the United States. Through legislation such as the Authorized Use of Military Force Act and the PATRIOT Act, George W. Bush and Barack Obama became among the most powerful Presidents in American history via broader executive powers. 
The granting of these increased powers was rationalized by the crisis of 9/11, and resulted in the creation of many secret detention facilities, as well as the indefinite detention of foreign terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay. While some of these means were reduced during the Obama administration, such as the removal of "advanced interrogation," Senators and Representatives (along with the White House itself) have been hesitant to undo some of the other infamous measures invoked by the Bush administration, such as Guantanamo; this is likely because of fear of terrorists being brought into state prisons.
And then there's the whole NSA thing.
While previous Presidents also exercised broad war powers, none topping those of Abraham Lincoln (who had to suspend habeas corpus) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (who detained thousands of Japanese, German, and Italian Americans without due process), the advent of the Internet and other globalized technology has allowed for some of the most intruding means of surveillance by any government through the passage of the PATRIOT Act.Especially section 215.
==See also==
*Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, for the "democracy-forcing" role of the Court.
*Military Commissions Act, for the failure of the rights-based analysis.
*Youngstown Tube and Sheet Co. v. Sawyer, on the institutional process argument.
*Nothing to hide argument for a common defense.
==References==
Category:Articles needing explanation
Category:Authoritarianism
Category:Government surveillance
Category:Terrorism
Category:United States politics
Exegesis

Exegesis (derived from the Greek for "to lead out") refers to a process of intense study and interpretation of a literary text. It is a subset of hermeneutics, which refers to interpretation in general.
==Exegesis in religion==
Its greatest utility is in a field where entire lives can hang on the omission or misplacement of one word; namely, the study of holy books. To understand how important exacting textual analysis is in these matters, one might consider the examples of the Wicked Bible and the , where the misplacement of two words might have resulted in whole legions of faithful unwittingly going to hell in a dizzying whirl of adulterous debauchery and atheism.
The scholarship required for exegesis also greatly reduces the possibility of certain parts of a text being read the "wrong way". For example, a naïve reading of Exodus 21:23-25 would suggest that it is an exhortation for people to go out and avenge themselves bloodily on anyone who does them wrong. However, exegesis will allow the reader to discover that back in those days, such quests for vengeance were a given, and the verse is in fact of an old principle known as the lex talionis, which was meant to limit the scope of such quests to keep the severity of the punishment equal to the severity of the offense. This in turn makes it much more understandable when Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, cites these verses as justification for a categorical condemnation of revenge.
==Eisegesis==
As the whole purpose of exegesis is to bring out meaning in a text that is not facially evident — and, indeed, may facially appear to contradict itself — it is very easy to read whatever you first thought of into the text. This possibility has been heavily exploited in the arena of Biblical exegesis. When you go so far that even other Biblical scholars notice you're doing this, the proper term is "eisegesis".
The use of bullshit in exegesis is by no means restricted to Biblical exegesis. A current fashion today is to take some ideology and fashion a literary school-of-thought out of it by running the entire corpus of literature through the lens of the ideology. The transcendentalists were an early example of this tendency, as they believed that morality could be read everywhere in the world and consequently read much more meaning into works than was actually there.
==References==
Category:Literature
Category:Religion
Existential assumption

An existential assumption (or existential fallacy) occurs whenever the conclusion of a syllogism requires that a class has at least one member, but one or more of the premises do not.
The fallacy is a syllogical fallacy and a formal fallacy.
==Form==
The syllogistic arguments AAI-1, EAO-1, AEO-2, EAO-2, AAI-3, IAI-3, AII-3, EAO-3, AAI-4, AEO-4 and EAO-4 all assume that one of the terms contains at least one element.
In predicate notation:
* P. \forall x \in S: P(x).
* C. Therefore, \exists x \in S: P(x).
==Explanation==
Universal statements, unlike the particulars, do not instantiate anything. For example, the statement, "All trespassers will be shot" (or rather, in standard form, "All trespassers are people who will be shot") does not say whether the trespassers exist or not. People will vow to shoot at any and all trespassers precisely because the statement does not guarantee the existence or non-existence of them. But when the trespassers do exist, they will be shot.
Particular statements (e.g. "Some dogs are fantastic pets.") do instantiate the subject term ("dogs"). In categorical logic, the precise definition of the word some is often taken to be at least one.
The fallacy occurs when there is a mismatch between the necessity of existence for the terms that are mentioned in both the premises and the conclusion. For example:
This argument is not sound because the premises don't imply that conclusion is true, because the subject, a unicorn, is not guaranteed to exist as the conclusion claims it does (the word "some" means, again, at least one.) An informal version of the argument would read:
The grandma can say either yes or no. Maybe the last sighting of a unicorn was 1,000 years ago, or unicorns are abundant and active and killing humans right now downtown. As you can see, the premises cannot prove the conclusion out of the premises. The key thing to understand is that in a categorical syllogism, the word some means there is at least one instance of something. So, it is a declaration of the existence of something. The original argument declared that unicorns existed, and specified a particular type of unicorns and finally concluded that these particular unicorns were dangerous. The latter two parts were guaranteed by the premises; the first part, the existence of unicorns, was assumed. In the informal phrasing of the argument, the existential question in the conclusion line emphasized the fact that that was assumed.
==See also==
*Existentialism
==External links==
*The Existential Fallacy, Fallacy Files
*Existential Fallacy, Stephen Downes
Category:Formal fallacies
Exodus International

Exodus International was a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian organization promoting the message of "freedom from homosexuality" through the power of Jesus Christ. In other words, Exodus International was a proponent of reparative therapy, a practice founded on the belief that "homosexual tendencies [are] one of many disorders that beset fallen humanity" and that "reorientation of same sex attraction is possible." In short, "pray away the gay."
The Advocate caught an offshoot of this group in 1987, trying to corner AIDS patients in their hospital rooms with the suggestion they stop being gay.The 45 Biggest Homophobes of Our 45 Years | Advocate.com
The organization opposed legislation targeting hate crimes, labeling such laws "thought crime laws" because they "pave the way to prosecute biblical beliefs about homosexuality, instead of prosecuting illegal actions that harm others."
Despite their guarded language, they made clear links between homosexuality and pedophiliaExodus International — Is there a connection between homosexuality and predatory behavior, like pedophilia? (Wayback Machine copy) and called gay people dangerous to the well-being of the family and America.Exodus International — Is Homosexuality a Threat to the Family? To America? (Wayback Machine copy)
If you were considering using their services, you might want to consider the history of one of their co-founders — Michael Bussee — who is now strongly critical of such groups.Michael Bussee Ex-Gay Leader Apology — Beyond Ex-Gay (Wayback Machine copy) He also fell in love with one of the other co-founders, both now accepting they were gay. Love conquers all!
In 2012, Exodus International president Alan Chambers (himself an "ex-gay") disavowed reparative therapy as something which offers false hope but fails to "cure" gays like himself of their homosexual tendencies. This apparent U-turn has caused some controversy within the movement."Rift Forms in Movement as Belief in Gay ‘Cure’ Is Renounced", New York Times, July 6, 2012.
Exodus International shut down in June 2013, offering a blanket apology to the LGBT community.I Am Sorry | Exodus International (blog, archived copy from the Wayback Machine) Chambers would later affirm Haggard's Law, coming out as gay.Conversion therapy center founder says he’s gay, rejects ‘cycle of self shame’ in Anchorage Daily News on 4 September 2019.
==References==
Category:Completely heterosexual
Category:Hate groups
Category:Organizations
Category:Pray the gay away
Category:Pseudoscience promoting organizations
Category:Right-wing activists
Exopaedia

Exopaedia is a blog/wiki, owned by Manuel Lamiroy, that seeks to demonstrate that alien life exists near Earth and that aliens have visited Earth multiple times. Unsurprisingly, they're quite shoddy about citing sources, and when they do give their sources, it tends to be other woo peddlers. 
The site started in 2007 and claims to be the successor to HyperBase (so called because it was a database that used hyperlinks), a similar venture by "regression therapists" (read: confabulation woo peddlers) created back in 1994. In fact, a lot of their articles are direct copies of HyperBase entries, due to be revised in sometime-never. Initially, it was open-edit like Wikipedia, but after problems with porn spammers, it was closed off.About the Exopaedia. (n.d.). Exopaedia. Now, at least in theory, anyone is welcome to contribute, but they need to contact Exopaedia first.Get Involved. (n.d.). Exopaedia. 
==Claims==
Their page on Richard C. Hoagland completely buys into all his claims, including being the first to propose the idea that life could exist on Jupiter's moon Europa, and throws shade of its own at NASA for supposedly neglecting to credit him as such.Hoagland, Richard. (n.d.) Exopaedia. 
They also believe that matter is really just energy that's vibrating at certain frequency, a claim they're parroting from a woo book called The Prism of Lyra.Frequency. (n.d.). Exopaedia.
===Earth and Humanity===
Exopaedia believes that humanity did not originate on Earth, claiming that humans originated from many waves of alien migration from , , and various other star systems.Humanoid galactic history. (n.d.) Exopaedia.
===MKULTRA===
While their claims that MKULTRA was proceeded by two operations called Project Artichoke and Project Bluebird really are true,Church Committee. (1976, April 26). Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence. they also make the silly claim that the MK in MKULTRA totally stands for "Mind Kontrol".MkUltra Project. (n.d.). Exopaedia. This is patently false: MK is just the designation for projects run by the CIA's Office of Technical Services Division,Peter Grosse, Gentleman Spy (1994), p. 595.John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate (1979), p. 57. which is now known as the .CIA Cryptonyms: MK. (n.d.) Mary Ferrell Foundation. Furthermore, not every MK project was about mind control. For example, in , the CIA attempted to develop biological weapons for sabotage and assassination and created a dart gun specifically for incapacitating guard dogs.
They also believe in the Project Monarch conspiracy theory.Monarch Project. (n.d.). Exopaedia.
==References==
Category:Wikis
Exopolitics

Exopolitics is a fancy term for "extraterrestrial politics" (the Greek prefix "exo-" means "outside" or "external" — compare exoplanet). As no extraterrestrial life has been discovered yet, let alone extraterrestrial life capable of politics, this is the domain of cranks and nutjobs some really weird people. It's the result of what happens when beliefs progress beyond the simple fascination with UFOs ("there's no other explanation for UFOs, therefore they must be alien spacecraft") well into true believer territory ("of course we know that there are multiple alien races!").
The term has been used to denote two slightly different things — the alleged dealings of aliens with Earth politicians and the science fiction-like tales of alien wars and alliances. If this sounds vaguely familiar, both meanings form a lot of the plot of The X-Files. It includes various well-known myths about Roswell/Area 51 and the US government, e.g. Michael Salla's claim that Eisenhower met aliens, and Salla's book explaining how "since at least the 1930s every major war and policy decision has been in response to an undisclosed extraterrestrial presence on Earth".Jim Marrs, publicity material for Exopolitics: The Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence, Michael E. Salla, Dandelion Enterprises, 9 Apr 2017, via Amazon Salla has attempted to link QAnon to alien control of human institutions.Trump and Q on the Invisible Enemy – the Extraterrestrial Factor, Michael Salla, exopolitics.org, July 1, 2020 David Icke's conspiracy theory about reptilian aliens controlling the world is another example.
==See also==
*Alfred Webre
*Exotheology
*Michael Salla
*Posadism
== External links ==
* Exopolitics, entry in the Exopedia
* Exopolitics section of Biblioteca Pleyades
* Exopolitics.org (Michael Salla's website)
* Exopolitics.com (Alfred Webre's website)
==References==
Category:Politics
Category:Ufology