Well, shit. I always used this as a trustworthy data information for my students.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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It never occured to me that the Central Intelligence Agency would ever share any of it with public. Interesting!
Shit, I wonder what they'll do with the NORAD Santa tracker, nothing good for sure.
[Laughs in Orwell]: America has always been at war with facts
The word "Fact" is woke.
Soon to be replaced by Dear Leader's World Feelsbook, which will be immediately outdated if ever printed
Fakts.
Coming Soon: The World Alternative Facts Book!
Isn't that just a rebranded Conservapedia? 🧐
Because let's get rid of anything our government did that was somehow good. It's been awesome having the fascists destroy anything and everything that is helpful.
that's what fascists do. successful things are a threat to fascism
Especially facts. Surprised this stayed up as long as it did.
Shitty, that was one of the coolest publicly known things that they did.
Saying the World Factbook was the one good thing the CIA ever did feels like all the folks over in the /r/neoliberal sub on Reddit compulsively shouting "PEPFAR!" every time Bush 43's name is mentioned.
Not even what I said, but OK.
Even shittier, TIL about it.
Can a mirror be hosted somewhere, since it’s in the public domain?
Probably got captured on the internet archive, someone just needs to make a good compressed repack like Wikipedia does.
Not my site, but credit where it's due: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/
Up through 2020 is at the archive, and this guy uploaded that latest version to github as well.
Edit: through 2020 is at the archive as zip downloads. 2021 through 2024 is available as their normal wayback archive for browsing.
FYI this guy is an internet treasure.
Factchecking isn't tolerated, in ideological-regimes.
Left or right, or religious/fundamentalist ( fundamentalist-antitheism is a religion too, mr. Dawkins ).
To be expected.
ALL hard-reference information sources will be extinguished, systematically, as this process progresses.
When ONLY ideology remains, THEN rampaging & reacting can be the "law".
The escalation will continue,
as I've been trying to warn people.
Prep, if you want.
Tippingpoint should happen after mid-Feb, not before.
Then NO civilrights will remain, only totalitarian .. mess.
Civil War Part2.
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