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Links to useful resources around the web.

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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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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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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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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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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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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National Archives Catalog
https://catalog.archives.gov/ The National Archives Catalog lets the staff and public search multiple National Archives resources at once. The catalog searches across archival descriptions, digitized and electronic records, authority records, and web pages from Archives.gov and the Presidential Libraries. The catalog also allows the public to participate in cataloging records by […]

National Archives Catalog

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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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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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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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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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We Are Change
https://wearechange.org/blog/ We Are Change is a nonpartisan, independent media organization comprised of individuals and groups working to expose corruption worldwide. Founded by Luke Rudkowski, We Are Change is comprised of independent journalists, concerned citizens, activists, and anyone who wants to shape the direction our world is going in. We seek […]

We Are Change

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Karbala City Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala Karbala or Kerbala (Arabic: كَرْبَلَاء‎, romanized: Karbalāʾ [karbaˈlaːʔ], /ˈkɑːrbələ/ KAR-bə-lə,[2][3] also US: /ˌkɑːrbəˈlɑː/ KAR-bə-LAH;[4][5]) is a city in central Iraq, located about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Baghdad, and a few dozen miles east of Lake Milh.[6][7] Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated […]

Karbala City Iraq

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Just the News
https://justthenews.com/ JusttheNews.com is committed to just reporting facts from journalists with a long record of public trust and excellence. In an era where opinion and supposition are too often substituted for fact and where journalists rush to get things first and hope their stories are correct, JusttheNews.com tries to stand […]

Just the News

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US Constitution Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States_Constitution   The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.[2] The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three […]

US Constitution Wiki

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New Discourses: "Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness." Articles and editorials, videos, podcast website and media group.
New Discourses: “Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.” Articles and editorials, videos, podcast website and media group. Welcome to New Discourses! We like to think of this place as a home for the politically homeless, especially for those who feel like they’ve been displaced from their political […]

New Discourses

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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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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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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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