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Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/ When we founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 – as the first investigative news magazine based on the Internet – there was already a crisis building in the U.S. news media. The mainstream media was falling into a pattern of groupthink on issue after issue, often ignoring important factual information because […]

Consortium News

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Not the Babylon Bee News
https://notthebee.com/ Not the Bee is a humor-based news, opinion, and entertainment site from the creators of The Babylon Bee… Like the name suggests, it’ll feature some absurd and hilarious (but real) news that seems like it should definitely be satire.   It’ll also have opinions, videos, personalities, memes, viral stuff, […]

Not the Babylon Bee News

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Sacsayhuaman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacsayhuam%C3%A1n Saqsaywaman,[1][2] which can be spelled many different ways [3] (possibly from Quechua language, waman falcon[4] or variable hawk)[5], is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire. Sections were first built by the Killke culture about 1100; they […]

Sacsayhuaman Peru

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WikiSource Documents Archive
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page “Poetry from ancient and romantic to modern, in love and war Texts, laws, constitutions of many countries Documents from US history, including Revolution and Civil War US law: Supreme Court decisions, government documents, presidential addresses General literature: modern novels and short stories, horror stories, children’s literature, science fiction, drama […]

WikiSource Documents Archive

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Ballotpedia Electoral Encyclopedia
https://ballotpedia.org/   Ballotpedia is the digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections. Our goal is to inform people about politics by providing accurate and objective information about politics at all levels of government. We are firmly committed to neutrality in our content.   As a nonprofit, our mission is to […]

Ballotpedia Electoral Encyclopedia

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HowMuch.net Understanding Money in Visualizations and Infographics
https://howmuch.net/ HowMuch.net was born with one mission: “Understanding Money.” We create unique, beautiful, compelling, and easy-to-understand guides and visualizations to help people make better financial decisions. By turning complicated economic & financial matters into digestible visuals accompanied by insightful articles, we help people become better informed about financial facts that […]

HowMuch.net Understanding Money in Infographics and Visualizations

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Baldachin St. Peter’s Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L’Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the […]

St. Peter’s Baldachin Vatican City

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Tetris Kids Game
https://tetris.com/play-tetris “By embracing our universal desire to create order out of chaos, the Tetris® game provides intellectual sport that combines continuous fun with mental stimulation. As one of the most recognizable and influential video game brands in the world, it’s no wonder why there are hundreds of millions of Tetris products being played, worn, and […]

Tetris

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Real Clear Investigations features articles, in-depth journalism, and investigative reporting from their own writers and others.
https://realclearinvestigations.com/articles/ “Our mission is three-fold: curate the best investigative reporting found anywhere, produce our own in-depth journalism, and make this original work available to other news organizations.”

Real Clear Investigations

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Laotian Plain of Jars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars The Plain of Jars (Lao: ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ [tʰōŋ hǎj hǐn]) is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau. The jars are arranged in clusters ranging in number […]

Plain of Jars Laos

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Pacific Legal Liberty Lawyers
https://pacificlegal.org/ Pacific Legal Foundation is a nonprofit legal organization that defends Americans’ liberties when threatened by government overreach and abuse. We sue the government when it violates Americans’ constitutional rights—and win! Each year, PLF represents hundreds of Americans, free of charge, who seek to improve their lives but are stymied […]

Pacific Legal Pro Bono Liberty Lawyers

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Scottish Declaration of Independence: 1320 Declaration of Arbroath for Scottish Sovereignty
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Arbroath The Declaration of Arbroath (Scots: Declaration o Aiberbrothock; Latin: Declaratio Arbroathis; Scottish Gaelic: Tiomnadh Bhruis) is a declaration of Scottish independence, made in 1320. It is in the form of a letter in Latin submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Scotland’s status […]

1320 Declaration of Arbroath for Scottish Sovereignty

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Patrick Byrne Deep Capture Wall Street Corruption
https://www.deepcapture.com/the-story-of-deep-capture-by-mark-mitchell/ The crimes are the work of Wall Street hedge fund managers and brokers who engage in a common trading strategy known as short-selling. A short sale is a way of making money when the price of a stock goes down. You borrow shares from someone else and immediately sell […]

Deep Capture Wall Street Corruption

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Mullvad privacy TOR Browser
Mullvad Browser When you visit a website, you can be identified and tracked through your IP address, third-party cookies, all kinds of tracking scripts, and through so called browser fingerprints. That’s why masking your IP address is not enough to stop the data collection. However, by using a trustworthy VPN […]

Mullvad Browser

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Source: ‘Ring the Alarm: Laura Poitras Discusses Suing the US Government’ by Marlow Stern for The Daily Beast The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour opens up about NSA spying, Chelsea Manning, Obama’s ‘terrible legacy,’ and more. Let’s talk about your blockbuster AT&T/NSA story in the Times. Since it came from the […]

Laura Poitras Print Interview 8-18-15

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Mount Fuji Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Fuji Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan, IPA: [ɸɯꜜ(d)ʑisaɴ] (About this soundlisten)), located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan, standing 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft). It is also the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci in Sumatra), and seventh-highest peak of an island […]

Mount Fuji Japan

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Moms for Liberty is for unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.
https://www.momsforliberty.org/ “Moms for Liberty welcomes all that have a desire to stand up for parental rights at all levels of government. Our founders are Tiffany and Tina, moms on a mission to stoke the fires of liberty.  As former school board members, they witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly […]

Moms for Liberty

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Liberapay Monetization Paywall
https://liberapay.com/ People who contribute to the commons need you to support their work. Building free software, spreading free knowledge, these things take time and cost money, not only to do the initial work, but also to maintain it over time. Liberapay’s recurrent donations system is designed to provide a stable […]

Liberapay Creator Monetization Paywall

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emperor The first fragments of warriors and bronze arrowheads were discovered by Yang Zhifa, his five brothers, and Wang Puzhi who were digging a well in March 1974 in Xiyang, a village of the Lintong county.[15][16] At a depth of around two meters, they found hardened dirt, then red earthenware, […]

Terracotta Warriors

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Seowon Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seowon Seowon (Korean: 서원; Hanja: 書院) were the most common educational institutions of Korea during the mid- to late Joseon Dynasty. They were private institutions, and combined the functions of a Confucian shrine and a preparatory school. In educational terms, the seowon were primarily occupied with preparing students for the […]

Seowon Korea

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Source: https://mises.org/ The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, is an educational institution devoted to advancing Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the classical-liberal tradition.   For over 30 years the Mises Institute has provided both scholars and laymen with resources to broaden their understanding of the economic school of thought […]

Ludwig Von Mises Institute

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Dome of the Rock Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rockhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة‎ Qubbat al-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע‎ Kippat ha-Sela) is an Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was initially completed in 691–92 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna […]

Dome of The Rock Jerusalem

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Wolfram Alpha
https://www.wolframalpha.com/tour/ “Wolfram|Alpha is a unique engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis and generate reports. LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS New kinds of algorithms for 1,000+ domains CURATED DATA 10+ trillion pieces of data from […]

Wolfram Alpha Research Search Engine

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Nassim Taleb's Fooled By Randomness
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ Author of the INCERTO a philosophical and practical essay on uncertainty (Skin In the Game, Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes), a (so far) 5-volume”investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk,and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in […]

Nassim Taleb’s Fooled By Randomness

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United States Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_Constitution We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United […]

United States Constitution

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Information is Beautiful Infographics
https://informationisbeautiful.net/ Data, information, knowledge: we distill it into beautiful, useful graphics & diagrams. Founded by David McCandless, author of two bestselling infographics books, Information is Beautiful is dedicated to helping you make clearer, more informed decisions about the world. All our visualizations are based on facts & data: constantly updated, […]

Information is Beautiful Infographics

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Tulsi Gabbard at Trump Tower 2016
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/sanity-walked-through-the-trump-tower-doors-today “As Daniel McAdams reported at the time for The Ron Paul Institute: ‘Gabbard first raised eyebrows several weeks ago when she began to openly question President Obama’s Middle East policies, and particularly his “Assad must go” policy in Syria. It is unusual for a first-term Member of Congress to […]

Sanity in Trump Tower

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law Goodhart’s law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” One way in which this can occur is individuals trying to anticipate the effect of a policy and […]

Goodhart’s Law

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100 Emergency Items
Source: Tess Pennington @ LewRockwell Do you ever wonder if a major emergency situation occurred what would disappear first? Due to the overwhelming nature of prepping for a emergency situation, many do not know where to even begin, let alone think of emergency situations they would need to prepare for. […]

Prepper Items List

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Mozu Tombs, Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozu_Tombs The Mozu Tombs (百舌鳥古墳群, Mozu kofungun) are a group of megalithic tombs in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Originally consisting of more than 100 tombs, only less than 50% of the key-hole, round and rectangular tombs remain.

Mozu Tombs Japan

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http://c4sif.org/ The Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF) is dedicated to building public awareness of the manner in which laws and policies impede innovation, creativity, communication, learning, knowledge, emulation, and information sharing. We are for property rights, free markets, competition, commerce, cooperation, and the voluntary sharing of knowledge, […]

C4SIF Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom

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The Babylon Bee Satire News
https://babylonbee.com/ The Babylon Bee is the world’s best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life.   The Babylon Bee was created ex nihilo on the eighth day of the creation week, exactly 6,000 years ago. We have […]

Babylon Bee Satire News

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History.gov History Hub Archive
https://historyhub.history.gov/welcome A support community managed by the National Archives for researchers, citizen historians, archival professionals, and open government advocates What is History Hub? History Hub is a crowdsourcing platform sponsored by the National Archives. It is a place to ask questions, share information, work together, and find people based on […]

History.gov History Hub Archive

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