tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26193422447201674102024-03-12T20:51:07.824-07:00Living FreeA place for all things related to Libertarianism, Voluntaryism, Non-Aggression Principle, Anarchy, Anarcho-Capitalism, Freedom, Objectivism, and Self-Rule. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619342244720167410.post-36627417057835067692018-02-15T14:41:00.000-08:002018-02-15T14:41:57.352-08:00Defending Trump<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Conservatives that are supporting Trump sound just like the liberals who defended Obama by claiming that the previous administration did it first.<br />
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If you hated Obama so much and thought that he was such a terrible president, why do you defend the policies of your guy by illustrating the fact that Obama did it first? Wouldn't that be a bad thing? </div>
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Living free means divorcing yourself from as many of the government's control systems as possible and one of the most powerful and insidious systems is public education.<br />
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Public Education is not about education. It's about robbing children from their parents, breaking up families, and creating soldiers.<br />
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When you think about it and put things in perspective, the idea of sending your children off to strangers to be raised is absolutely insane. <br /><br />
Most people would never even think that they are doing this, but think about it. The average American works until 5pm, and gets home between 5:30 and 6pm. That means that their children are being cared for by others from the time they are dropped off at school around 8am, until 6pm. You get home, just in time to feed them and make sure they do their homework before going to bed. <br />
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Homework exists to ensure that the government institution that is raising them does not allow too much interaction with the parents, so even while at home, the children are under government control. It is based on the ridiculous notion that 6-7 hours of instruction is insufficient to educate the child, yet homeschooled kids who regularly out-perform public schooled kids, spend only 3-4 hours a day doing lessons. <br />
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Think about this. Your child learned to walk by watching you. They learned to speak by imitating you. For the first few years of your child's life from the time he was born, the child knew you as his teacher. A special bond developed in the child's mind between you and your child. You were imprinted in the child's mind before he could talk that he learned great things from you.<br />
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Then the system demanded that you hand over your child to others to teach them. This was a strange concept to the child and it is a very new idea in human history and the results have been disastrous. It's time to scrap this 18th century Prussian system and go back to what humans have done for the majority of our existence, educate our own children, maintaining that special bond that was formed early in your child's life.<br />
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The idea of homeschooling seems overwhelming and daunting to many parents who have never done it. Think about that for a minute. Why should a properly educated adult feel intimidated about teaching a child, let alone THEIR OWN CHILD? What have they been doing all this time? <br />
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Homeschooling is simple, there are many resources available to help you. Find people who are successful homeschoolers, network with them, and learn from them. Structure is not as important as you think it is. <br />
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Some recommended resources are listed here: <br />
<a href="http://www.khanacademy.com/" target="_blank">www.KhanAcademy.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.udemy.com/" target="_blank">www.udemy.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses" target="_blank">www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses</a> - Over 1300 FREE Online Courses from major universities (and counting).<br />
<a href="https://www.udacity.com/" target="_blank">www.udacity.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">www.wikipedia.org</a><br />
<a href="https://www.arduino.cc/" target="_blank">https://www.arduino.cc</a> - Learn electronic development and coding using these open-source cheap-as-dirt microcontroller development boads.<br />
<a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/" target="_blank">www.raspberrypi.org </a>- Lean to write code in Python and other languages using these open-source cheap computers.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619342244720167410.post-62858507470035963542017-04-09T13:12:00.002-07:002017-04-09T13:14:48.706-07:00Vladimir Putin Denounces U.S. "Evidence" of Syrian Gas Attack<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619342244720167410.post-33316035341526498202017-04-09T10:49:00.002-07:002017-04-09T11:15:21.731-07:00A Kid Snuck into John Lennon's Hotel with a Tape Recorder, This was the Result.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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During a rainstorm on February 1, 1968, two black <a href="http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/memphis-v-mlk/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">sanitation workers</a> in Memphis lost their lives when the truck’s compactor accidentally triggered. On that same day, 22 black sewer workers were sent home without pay while their white coworkers received compensation. Less than two weeks later, over a thousand black sanitation workers went on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBDgH435oaU" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">strike</a> wearing placards reading, “I AM A MAN.”</div>
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On March 18, 1968, Dr. King spoke at a rally in Memphis promising to lead a march later in the month supporting the striking sanitation workers. According to the <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2d.html#inciting" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">House Select Committee on Assassinations,</a> a black civil rights group named the Invaders sabotaged the March 28 demonstration by distributing hundreds of two by two sticks attached to placards into the hands of impressionable black children caught breaking store windows. The Invaders allegedly incited violence against Dr. King’s orders of peaceful resistance.</div>
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On April 4, 1968, Dr. King’s Memphis PD security detail had been withdrawn, a <a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/Martin%20Luther%20King,%20Jr./Martin%20Luther%20King,%20Jr.%20Part%201%20of%202/view" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">black Memphis PD detective</a> posted near the Lorraine Motel had been removed, and two black firemen in a station near the Lorraine Motel were transferred shortly before the assassination. Former Memphis PD Detective Jerry Williams had been assigned to Dr. King’s <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/15/retired_memphis_policeman_no_black_officers" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">security detail</a> twice before his final visit in 1968. Det. Williams asserted on Dr. King’s final visit that no black officers had been assigned to his security detail. The day before Dr. King’s death, Inspector Don H. Smith requested to remove his detail. The request was granted.</div>
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Since revealing its illegal <a href="http://vault.fbi.gov/Martin%20Luther%20King,%20Jr./Martin%20Luther%20King,%20Jr.%20Part%202%20of%202/view" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">COINTELPRO</a> harassment of Dr. King and the existence of at least <a href="http://vault.fbi.gov/Martin%20Luther%20King,%20Jr./Martin%20Luther%20King,%20Jr.%20Part%201%20of%202/view" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">5 paid informants</a> who reported to their Memphis Field Office, the FBI also disclosed that Dr. King’s trusted friend and renowned photographer, Ernest Withers, had been secretly working as an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/14/photographer-ernest-withers-fbi-informer" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">FBI informant</a>. In addition to the FBI informants, a black undercover Memphis PD officer named Marrell McCollough had infiltrated the Invaders in 1968. McCollough stood in the parking lot of the Lorraine Motel on the night Dr. King died. He claimed to have been the first person to reach the body.</div>
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Although the Invaders had been removed from the Lorraine Motel a few hours earlier, undercover MPD officer Marrell McCollough remained on the premises until Dr. King’s death. McCollough claimed he spent the day shopping with Rev. James Bevel and Rev. James Orange of the SCLC. Standing in the parking lot of the Lorraine Motel, McCollough witnessed Dr. King’s assassination then ran up the stairs to view the body. <em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">ABC News</em> confirmed McCollough went on to join the CIA, and he later testified on March 12, 1978, to the <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/references-mlk.html#introduction" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">House Select Committee on Assassinations</a>.</div>
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While recalling Dr. King’s final moments, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOq85bLFnE#t=22" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Rev. Billy Kyles</a> who was standing beside Dr. King on the balcony admitted decades later, “Only as I moved away so he could have a clear shot, the shot rang out.” Kyles has denied working as an FBI informant, even though he was accused of being a confidential Memphis PD informant.</div>
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In 1999, civil trial <a href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/mlk/part3.php" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">King v. Jowers</a> determined former Memphis PD officer <a href="http://ctka.net/pr500-king.html" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Loyd Jowers</a> had been complicit in a conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King. In December 1993, Jowers appeared on ABC’s <em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Prime Time Live</em> confessing to his participation in Dr. King’s assassination. Jowers admitted he believed MPD <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/04/04/mlk-hit/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Lt. Earl Clark</a> fired the shot that killed Dr. King, not James Earl Ray. Although the U.S. government claims that Jowers fabricated his allegations, they have also admitted responsibility in attempting to ruin Dr. King’s marriage and persuading him to commit <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?_r=0" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">suicide</a>.</div>
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The founder of the transparency organization WikiLeaks released a statement yesterday upon the release of over 500,000 diplomatic cables dating back to 1979, which succinctly reveals how the CIA was essentially responsible for creating the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.<br />
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The timing of the release coincided with the sixth anniversary of WikiLeaks “Cablegate” release, which exposed the machinations of the underbelly of the U.S. empire. The latest release, known as the “Carter Cables,” adds 531,525 new diplomatic cables to the WikiLeaks’ already voluminous Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy (PLUSD).<br />
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In a statement released in concert with the release of the “Carter Cables,” Julian Assange mapped out how the events of 1979 began a series of events that have ultimately culminated in the rise of ISIS.</div>
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Assange lays bare the reality that the roots of modern Islamist terrorism began through a joint venture by the CIA and Saudi Arabian government, to the tune of billions of dollars, to create a “Mujahideen” force to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan – which ultimately led to the creation of al-Qaeda.</div>
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Assange editorial on today's 500,000 cables from the "year zero" of the modern era <a href="https://t.co/EN0PW5LWeF">https://t.co/EN0PW5LWeF</a> <a href="https://t.co/jJKFfVWDtn">pic.twitter.com/jJKFfVWDtn</a></div>
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/803200254334091264">November 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Assange is not alone in his claims either. According to a poll by the Express, the overwhelming majority of people understand that US foreign policy created ISIS.</div>
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Assange goes on to note that the subsequent attacks of 9/11, and invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, directly led to the rise of ISIS.<br />
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<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“In the Middle East, the Iranian revolution, the Saudi Islamic uprising and the Egypt-Israel Camp David Accords led not only to the present regional power dynamic but decisively changed the relationship between oil, militant Islam and the world.</em><br />
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<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“The uprising at Mecca permanently shifted Saudi Arabia towards Wahhabism, leading to the transnational spread of Islamic fundamentalism and the US-Saudi destabilisation of Afghanistan,”</em> said Assange.<br />
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The narrative laid out by Assange exposes exactly how militant Islam was nurtured by the CIA and Saudi government as a mean of usurping the communist Afghani government, which had asked for Soviet assistance in combatting Islamic terrorism.<br />
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<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“The invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR would see Saudi Arabia and the CIA push billions of dollars to Mujahideen fighters as part of Operation Cyclone, fomenting the rise of al-Qaeda and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.</em><br />
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<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“The 1979 current of Islamification spread to Pakistan where the US embassy was burned to the ground and Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“The Iranian hostage crisis would go on to fatally undermine Jimmy Carter’s presidency and see the election of Ronald Reagan.</em><br />
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<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“The rise of al-Qaeda eventually bore the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, enabling the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and over a decade of war, leaving, at its end, the ideological, financial and geographic basis for ISIS,” </em>said Assange.<br />
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In addition to the rise of global militant Islam, the latest release also includes cables regarding the election of Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister. <a href="https://t.co/mUY3OL78oX" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Three Mile Island nuclear incident</a> is also covered as well as cables highlighting <a href="https://t.co/jny58R5RBn" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Henry Kissinger secretly working with David Rockefeller</a> to find a place for the deposed Shah of Iran to hide.<br />
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<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">“In 1979 it seemed as if the blood would never stop,” </em>noted Assange.<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> “Dozens of countries saw assassinations, coups, revolts, bombings, political kidnappings and wars of liberation.”</em><br />
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With the release of the “Carter Cables,” WikiLeaks’ has now published a total of 3.3 million U.S. diplomatic cables. Staying true to their motto – WikiLeaks continues to open up governments.<br />
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Below is a video interview with Assange where he highlights an email from the Podesta leak, which exposed that the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are directly funding ISIS. In that email, sent on August 17, 2014, Hillary Clinton asked John Podesta to help put “pressure” on the Qatari and Saudi Arabian governments over their support of ISIS. State sponsorship of ISIS, by what is generally considered a close ally of the United States, is something that U.S. officials continue to refuse to acknowledge publicly.<br />
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Hillary Clinton’s email to Podesta reveals clearly the reality of the situation.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">According to a </span><a href="http://www.wndu.com/content/news/Residents-affected-by-flooding-need-building-permit-for-repairs-390600891.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WNDU" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">media release</a><span style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> from the South Bend/St. Joseph County Building Department:</span></div>
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There has never been an honest election. Redistricting, gerrymandering, and ID fraud, double-counting, lost or destroyed ballots, disallowed ballots, recounts, hanging chads, and fraudulent counts are nothing new. They have always been the norm. The only thing that has changed is that we now have the Internet and alternative media outlets to spread the word about what has always been. </div>
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Free people do not vote. Government will never put liberty on a ballot. You cannot vote yourself to be free. </div>
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Remember that Apartheid ended when people stopped voting. Before that people tried to change things in South Africa by voting. Apartheid remained a legitimate policy because the very fact that people participated in the election was touted by the government as proof that they were the legitimate result of the will of the people. When voter participation fell below 6%, the world saw that the government of South Africa was no longer legitimate and that they were not representing the people. That is what killed Apartheid. </div>
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Do you think that the U.S. Government legitimately represents you? Perhaps you should rethink your plans to hold your knows and vote for the lesser evil at the ballot box... </div>
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“That has to be wrong. I don’t have any tickets under my name. That’s just my first reaction. Never would have I thought, tamales,” said Cruz in an interview with<a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/08/11/woman-fighting-fine-for-selling-tamales-without-permit/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"> CBS DFW</a>. “To know that somebody can be arrested over that, that to me is unbelievable.”.</div>
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The yellow ticket was a “warrant arrest notice” stemming from Cruz’ illegal activity a few months prior. Cruz, obviously a hardened criminal worthy of police action, decided to make her famous tamales and post them on the app Nextdoor for sale. Her neighbors loved them.</div>
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The city of Carrollton maintains that extorting Cruz is in the interest of the people. According to a city director, tamales are a danger to society. A director said a fine was issued and not a warning because tamales are considered “potentially hazardous food” due to the cooked corn and meat being used, according to CBS DFW.</div>
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This absurd arrest warrant comes on the heels of an equally asinine incident, also in Texas, in which two young girls had their lemonade stand shut down by local cops for not having the correct permit. The good news is that, like Cruz, the girls refused to roll over and <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-raid-girls-illegal-lemonade-stand-shut-operating-permit/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">opened their stand up again the next weekend.</a></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ctdbf-0-0">Negative Interest Rates are the future of Legacy Banking. Legacy Banks are those places where you are currently keeping your money safe - places like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, etc. They are built on a business model that is centuries old and has been frought with corruption for its entire existence. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3204b-0-0">In order to bolster a failing system, many large banks have decided to build up hoards of cash by charging negative interest rates to their depositors. They believe that this means of punishing savers and rewarding borrowers will supercharge the economy and their business. This is likely to be the final nail in the coffin of the <a href="https://mises.org/library/corrupt-origins-central-banking" target="_blank">Centralized Banking Systems</a> like the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank that have plagued the world for the past two centuries.
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<span data-offset-key="93ro5-0-0">The bank then loans that money out to people so they can buy houses, cars, or start a business, etc. But they mark up the interest rate pretty significantly. They also have the ability, through the scheme of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking" target="_blank">Fractional Reserve Banking</a>, to lend out more than they have. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6hj7h-0-0">With negative interest rates, you will pay the bank to lend them money. In other words, instead of collecting that 0.5% or 1% interest for depositing money into your account, the bank will charge you interest to lend them money. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7g2t4-0-0">Logic says that this will cause a run on the banks - that is everyone will withdraw their money and keep it in a safe or "under the mattress". They are hoping that by offering attractive interest rates on home loans and other loans (which will undoubtedly have deposit requirements) that people will opt to pay the interest on their savings and checking accounts so they can get the great interest rates on their loans. </span></div>
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<i><span data-offset-key="3eu8k-0-0">In other words: The banks don't have your money. It's gone. So, depositors who clear out their accounts first will be able to do so. Those that wait too long will find that their money was given out to the early arrivals. </span> </i></blockquote>
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<span data-offset-key="tnvd-0-0">Get your money out of Government-backed Central Bank Currencies like the U.S. Dollar, Euro, Yen, etc. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2016/08/08/james-grant-negative-interest-rates-will-end-badly/" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">James Grant: Negative Interest Rates Will End — Badly</a><br />
<a href="http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/040215/understanding-negative-rates-europes-central-banks.asp" target="_blank">Investopedia</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e979d096-5fe3-11e6-b38c-7b39cbb1138a.html#axzz4HWMGw5Vm" target="_blank">Banks look for cheap way to store cash piles as rates go negative</a><br />
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This man uses technology to disrupt the ability for police to successfully cite him for bogus infractions or crimes. </div>
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While he clearly spent a TON of money building this, not all of the technology needs to be installed at once. Clearly, people can pick and choose which of these upgrades are most advantageous to them. </div>
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If anyone needed a reminder that America has a police brutality problem, the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile provided it. Actual numbers on violent police encounters are difficult to come by, but this dearth of data is getting more attention.<br />
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<a href="http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2016/06/16/injuryprev-2016-042023" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">New research</a> published in the British Medical Journal demonstrates the danger posed to citizens by the most routine police practice of a “legal stop.”<br />
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Researchers analyzed 12.3 million police interventions from 2012 and found that <strong style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">approximately 55,400 people were injured or killed by cops during legal stop and search incidents in one year</strong>. Of this number, about 1,000 were killed, with vast majority dying from gunshot wounds. The remaining 54,400 were hospitalized with serious injuries, mostly from blunt objects.<br />
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“On average, an estimated 1 in 291 stops/arrests resulted in hospital-treated injury or death of a suspect or bystander.”</h3>
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Granted, some of these injuries or deaths were justified to protect officers or innocent people from actual violent people, but even the authors of the study conclude that these numbers reflect an “excess exposure” of people to police violence.<br />
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In an <a href="http://www.vocativ.com/344443/police-55000/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">interview with Vocativ</a>, lead author Ted Miller, of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, pointed out how many shooting deaths in the U.S. come from a police gun.<br />
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“<strong style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In one in 11 cases where someone died because someone else intentionally shot them, a police officer pulled the trigger,</em></strong>” said Miller.<br />
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The fact that cops are responsible for almost 10 percent of firearm-related homicides in the U.S.—which already has an extraordinarily high rate of gun deaths relative to other countries—should be enough to cause a serious rethinking of policing across the country.<br />
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The new study also confirmed that minorities are targeted for stops at a far higher rate, although the likelihood of being injured or killed during that particular stop was equal for all groups.<br />
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“<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be arrested when the police stop them than Whites or Asians. This differential may well result from racism,</em>” said Miller. “<em style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">But once you are stopped or arrested, the likelihood that you will be killed or seriously injured during that police interaction does not depend on your race.</em>”</div>
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Data showed “blacks were almost four times more likely than whites to be arrested or stopped by police.” This racial bias in policing has long been assumed, and research is starting to confirm this.<br />
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The death of Philando Castile demonstrated how ‘riding in a car while black’ can lead to the ultimate tragedy. Castile, who <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/philando-castille-ticking-time-bomb/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">had been harassed by cops an unbelievable 52 times before</a>, was killed for doing nothing more than reaching for his wallet—after informing the cop that he had a concealed-carry permit for the gun he possessed.<br />
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The entire incident started with Castile and his black girlfriend being pulled over for a purported broken taillight. Cops use these petty excuses to pull people over so they can escalate the situation in the hope of searching the vehicle for drugs or other “contraband,” especially when the occupants are blacks or Hispanics.<br />
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Even police chiefs are accepting these truisms and, in some cases, making changes within their departments.</div>
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Thomas Wydra, the police chief of Hamden, Connecticut, <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/07/25/486945181/some-police-departments-are-rethinking-traffic-stops-to-reduce-bias" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e81034; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">informed his officers</a> that they should not be so concerned with “defective equipment” such as something hanging on the rearview mirror or an attachment on the license plate.<br />
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One year later, defective equipment stops dropped from 19 percent to 8 percent of all motor vehicle stops, which resulted in the number of black people being pulled over falling by 25 percent.<br />
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<strong style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stop pulling people over for petty “violations.” Stop pulling people over as an excuse to look for drugs.</strong> Extend this to people walking, riding a bike or otherwise going about their own business.</div>
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Just leave people alone unless they are actually causing harm to another person, and maybe the extraordinary rate of cops injuring and killing people could start falling. There is a way to address police brutality if only we look at the numbers and implement the basic solutions they suggest.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This week has culminated, once again, in loud calls for retaliation against police brutality and excessive/lethal force across the United States. As video surfaces of police trying to shoot an</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/21/south-florida-police-shoot-autistic-mans-caretaker-as-lies-in-street.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> Autistic 23 year old man </a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">with a toy truck- instead shooting a fully complying therapist laying down next to and trying to talk the man out of suicide- anger and calls to action against police brutality and excessive force have ripped through the online community, which is still trying to come to terms with the fatal shootings of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/us/baton-rouge-alton-sterling-shooting/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">two</span></a> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/07/07/graphic-video-minnesota-police-shooting-philando-castile-ryan-young-pkg-nd.cnn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">men</span></a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and a young,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/07/14/fresno-dylan-noble-shooting-jnd-orig-vstop.cnn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> unarmed teen</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in late June and early July. So far, there have been an estimated </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://killedbypolice.net/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">643 fatal police shootings </a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">of citizens in 2016, with at least </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://killedbypolice.net/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">60 fatal police shootings </a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">in the month of July alone, meaning that nearly 3 citizens have been killed every day by police across the country since the beginning of the month. In contrast, according to Operation Enduring Freedom at iCasualties.org, there have only been a total of 4 American Soldier </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://icasualties.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">deaths by combat</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in this entire </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">year</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Some have believed the police shootings to be justified and have expressed outrage that the police have received blowback for what seems to be indiscriminate use of fatal force. Individual Officers have even gone so far as to state they are </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://lawofficer.com/2016/07/this-is-war/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">at war </a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">with the people they serve and that they are </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206975819934626&set=pb.1252835445.-2207520000.1469212319.&type=3&theater" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">under attack</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, as vigilantes have targeted police in several retaliatory shootings across the country in </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html?_r=0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Dallas</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://abc7chicago.com/news/funerals-set-for-3-baton-rouge-police-officers-shot-to-death/1437322/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> Baton Rouge</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://nbc4i.com/2016/07/21/officers-hear-gunshots-while-investigating-report-of-shooting/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> Columbus</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> so far, killing at least 8 police officers since the beginning of July. Facebook user, Linda Marie Jourdain asks of those that do not feel sympathy for the officers, “Why can’t People (sic) just have respect for authority. It’s sad that they don’t get enough.”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It may be because continued release of footage- a compilation of videos from the month of July too long to list- of police brutality and excessive force shows that police are, in fact the ones preemptively planning to attack the citizenry, as you can plainly see in the fatal shooting of 19 year old Fresno teenager, Dylan Noble, and in new footage surfacing this week showing activists that had been protesting at the Republican National Convention getting raided in a form of intimidation early in the morning by police and federal agents who did not have a warrant. In the shooting death of Philip Castille, recordings of the conversations between the police officer and dispatcher apparently indicate that he was pulled over for having a wide-set nose. </span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-14/fresno-police-release-video-deadly-shooting-unarmed-white-man" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">newly-released footage</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> by the Fresno Police Department from the second officer’s body cam, police are seen to already have their guns drawn while still driving down the street, in a long moment, pointing the gun at the back of Noble’s head after turning sirens on to pull the teen’s truck over just 25 seconds before that for excessive speeding. In what I am now deeming Aggravated Panic, police already had their guns unholstered and were even dangerously driving with one hand on the wheel while simultaneously holding a loaded police-issued gun in the obviously premeditated death of unarmed Noble. Once pulled over, Noble is almost immediately shot for “not complying” with the officers that had just pointed a gun at the back of his head moments before while waiting for him to pull over. The Fresno police chief is stating that we should understand what was going through the policemen’s heads when they shot Noble </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">two more times</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> while he lay bleeding on the ground, as, apparently, Noble had reached for a clear plastic square that the officers have not yet shown to the public. Noble was not armed on his person, nor was there any weapon in his vehicle.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Earlier this week, police awaken Brittany Om with guns drawn in the morning in her motel room that she and other activists were staying in while protesting the Republican National Convention. In a show of pure intimidation, police even state that they will not be back if the protestors do not come back to the Convention, an obvious attempt to use their position of authority to silence those practicing their First Amendment Rights.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/07/police-fbi-raid-house-masked-anonymous-activists/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"> In the video</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, Law enforcement was recorded, telling them, “If you don’t want to see us again, stay away from the RNC.”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the case of Philip Castille- a man fatally shot Fourth of July weekend during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota- new evidence has surfaced that he was shot at point-blank range for having a</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/philando-castile-police-scanner-audio_us_5783a3a2e4b0c590f7ea0d4d" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">wide-set nose</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. His girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter watched helplessly next to him in the vehicle. His girlfriend then live-streamed the aftermath directly to Facebook, where it was removed shortly after by Facebook authorities, also known as the Facebook Police.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Also this week, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6K1Zk5uLr4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">footage from May</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> surfaced of a man fully complying with police after taking them on a high-speed chase through multiple states and ending in New Hampshire. As he laid down on the ground, a mob of policemen ran toward him and started pummeling him, kicking him, and beating him with their batons. It was all captured by a media helicopter, catching the beating on live footage.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">These are just a few instances that have made the news over the past month. Police have been using war rhetoric against the citizenry for over three decades; The War on Drugs and the War on Poverty have turned into a War on the Poor and Middle Class.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We now have a War of Fatal Force, where police have taken it upon themselves to be judge, jury and executioner. In a society that has developed countless non-lethal forms of weaponry such as gases and sprays, sticky foam, bean bags and rubber bullets, electroshock weapons and directed energy weapons there is no need for police to be shooting citizens to death 3 times a day, period. With only 8 police casualties this year directly attributed to the retaliation against use of lethal force against the citizenry, it’s entirely up to the officers to find a solution that could help the escalating situation resolve in a peaceful call to put down arms. As concerned citizen Eric Wilson states, “I would expect the people in positions of power to hold themselves to a higher regard than those they are serving. Having the ability to be judge, jury and executioner without accountability is where much of the anger comes from fellow citizens. Their ‘job’ is to give every person their ‘day in court.’ As the initiator of conflict, I would expect them to be experts in conflict resolution, and not further escalate already tense interactions.” </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The future for the safety of citizenry from police use of lethal force will look grim until police learn to use non-lethal force discriminately as a form of conflict resolution, and it would be no surprise to continue seeing police casualty numbers rise by as much as </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/us/police-shooting-deaths-july-2016/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">75% </a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">over the coming months, as citizens finally start </span>defending themselves in the War of Fatal Force.<br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Origi</span>nally posted to: http://www.distract101.com/when-cops-prepare-to-shoot-you-and-the-war-of-fatal-force/<br />
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LACK OF BALLOT ACCESS AND ELECTORAL VOTES CRUSH CHANCES OF VIABLE THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE</h1>
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<span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 15px;"><a href="http://www.distract101.com/lack-of-ballot-access-and-electoral-votes-crush-chances-of-viable-third-party-candidate/" rel="bookmark" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #aaaaaa; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><span class="fa fa-calendar" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "fontawesome"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin-right: 5px;"></span><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2016-07-20T11:31:08+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">JULY 20, 2016</time></a></span><span class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;"> <span class="author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.distract101.com/author/chris-perkins/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #aaaaaa; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><span class="fa fa-user" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "fontawesome"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin-right: 5px;"></span>DISTRACT.</a></span></span> <span class="tags-links" style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 12px; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="fa fa-tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "fontawesome"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin-right: 5px;"></span><a href="http://www.distract101.com/tag/elections/" rel="tag" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #aaaaaa; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">ELECTIONS</a>, <a href="http://www.distract101.com/tag/green-party/" rel="tag" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #aaaaaa; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">GREEN PARTY</a>, <a href="http://www.distract101.com/tag/jill-stein/" rel="tag" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #aaaaaa; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">JILL STEIN</a></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Approximately 15% of the voting population has been disheartened by the Democratic and Republican parties for the 2016 General Election Cycle, according to </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-clinton-trump-now-tied-gop-convention-kicks-n611936" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">recent polls</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, that will be voting Libertarian (10%) or Green (5%) as Independent voters. Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Candidate, and Jill Stein, Green Party Candidate, have been fighting vigorously against the Clinton and Trump campaigns, seeing unprecedented voter support for this year’s presidential election. However, all the hard work, campaigning, and ballot access initiatives will not pay off before Election Day. Despite acting as viable third-party candidates to give hope to those with a sour taste for the two-party system, they are, in fact, not worthwhile or even fully eligible candidates for the current election cycle, due to lack of state ballot access and historically non-existent Electoral College votes.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Green Party has had significant issues with gaining access to state ballots in more than half the states, with many ballot initiatives requiring court intervention and petitions in states such as </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.jill2016.com/az_ballot_challenge_win" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Arizona</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.gp.org/green_presidential_candidate_to_be_on_2016_georgia_ballot" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Georgia</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.jill2016.com/nevada_ballot_access" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Nevada</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://ballot-access.org/2016/06/01/green-and-constitution-parties-will-ask-to-be-put-on-tennessee-ballot-at-court-hearing-june-8/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Tennessee</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.gp.org/hawkins_media/pa_s_ballot_access_rules_unfair_to_third_parties" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Pennsylvania</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. According to the Green Party </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.gp.org/ballotaccess" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">website</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, they only have access to the general election state ballots where 60% of the population resides, leaving the other 30% still in progress and some 10% still battling it out in courts. Most states have passed the deadlines for candidates to be allowed on the ballot, leaving for the Green Party the only rectifications in the forms of court orders and recommendations to Attorney Generals to allow Jill Stein on the ballot, despite expired deadlines. Below is a </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.gp.org/ballotaccess" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">map</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> of Green Party Ballot Access for the 2016 Election.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jill Stein is currently receiving a hefty support of 5% of registered voters, but only 60% of them have equal access to vote her into office. With the inability to vote for her in nearly half the states, it will be very difficult and, historically, unlikely that she would receive even one Electoral College vote, especially as a write-in candidate. Currently, the Green Party also holds no Senate or House seats in Congress, nor do they hold any Governorships or even State Congressional seats. </span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As it stands, with equal access to only 3% of registered voters that would align with the Green Party, Jill Stein’s candidacy is only just beginning the process of becoming a viable third-party candidate, and it is unlikely that she would succeed in competing against a Democratic or Republican candidate.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Likewise, Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson, while on the ballot for a majority of states, has also had issues with ballot initiatives and currently does not have </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="https://www.lp.org/2016-presidential-ballot-access-map" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">equal ballot access</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in several states, also making his viability an unrealistic goal for this year’s election. While he has had unprecedented support among registered voters, he also will not be an equally accessible candidate for the entire voting population, making it a near impossibility that he would be elected president. Just as with the Green Party, the presidential seat is not the only election Libertarians are having difficulty with, as currently, there are no Federal Congressional seats in the House or Senate that the party holds. Below is a </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="https://www.lp.org/2016-presidential-ballot-access-map" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">map</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> of the Libertarian Party’s ballot access, with the Blue states representing in-process ballot initiatives.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beyond that, since the Libertarian Party’s inception in 1971, there has only been </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1972&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">one </a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Electoral College vote for the party, ever. This means that this year, Gary Johnson has a .0002% chance of receiving any Electoral College votes, nevertheless the nearly impossible feat of receiving a majority. The Green Party’s chance of receiving Electoral College votes is just as dismal, if not worse, due to its current standing as a non-viable third-party in many states.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Historically, Libertarian candidates have seen voter turnout in the low to mid hundreds of thousands, with a large jump of support from 523,000 in 2008 for Bob Barr to just shy of 1.276 million voters in </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2012&off=0&elect=0&f=0" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">2012 </a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">for Gary Johnson. Registered Libertarian voters have increased in the same time by </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2013/sep/09/libertarian-party-broward-county/libertarians-say-theyre-third-largest-political-pa/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">36%</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Currently the Libertarian Party has just 411,000 </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;"><a href="http://ballot-access.org/2016/03/27/march-2016-ballot-access-news-print-edition/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: navy; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">registered voters</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, while the Democratic and Republican parties have almost 43 million and 31 million, respectively. The Green Party has approximately 305,000 registered voters. Combined, Libertarian and Green Party registered voters currently equate to just shy of .01% of registered Democrats and Republicans, thus competing with the two-party system is merely symbolic for the 2016 presidential race.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Until full ballot access is gained at the state level, neither party will ever realistically win a Presidential Election. The Electoral College votes as the deciding body on who will be our next President- not the popular election- and it is important for voters to realize that they need to divide their focus between gaining support from individuals, but also to ensure that their Electoral College representatives are willing to vote for and support a third-party candidate. Not only do they need to focus on winning the presidential seat, but they also need to successfully vote in Representatives at the Congressional level. Without the realization that third-party candidates must receive support from the top down within the system, independent voters will continue to face disappoint with each election cycle.</span></div>
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While third party candidates have experienced growing <a href="http://theantimedia.org/2016-election-third-party-revolution/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #dd3333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">success</a> in the dearth of acceptable duopoly offerings, a dark horse has emerged.</div>
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According to Public Policy Polling, ‘Giant Meteor for President’ now <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/06/presidential-race-shaping-up-similarly-to-2012.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #dd3333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">ranks</a>as a serious contender — garnering <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“far more support than the third party candidates actually on the ballot.”</i></div>
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No, this most certainly is not the <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Onion</i>.</div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“[W]e find that the Meteor would poll at 13% … with Clinton at 43% and Trump at 38%,”</i> with the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson the favorite among just 5 percent and Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein winning just 2 percent of votes.</div>
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Yes, seriously.</div>
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In fact, the PPP notes, <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Meteor is particularly appealing to independent voters, functionally in a three way tie at 27% to 35% for Clinton and 31% for Trump.”</i></b></div>
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A previous, albeit fictitious candidate who found enormous success at the polls, Deez Nuts, managed only to <a href="http://theantimedia.org/deez-nuts-is-now-polling-higher-than-most-republican-presidential-candidates/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #dd3333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">garner</a> a 9 percent support rating — making Giant Meteor officially the most popular non-Democrat/Republican duopoly ‘candidate’ in the running yet.</div>
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Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump owe their so-called success almost solely to contempt for the other — with unfavorability in the latest <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/06/presidential-race-shaping-up-similarly-to-2012.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #dd3333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">poll</a>running 54 and 58, respectively — as voters align behind either to prevent the former secretary of state or the demagogic billionaire from being the next leader of the no-longer Free World.</div>
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But the Meteor — whose wildly popular bumper sticker reads, <b style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Giant Meteor 2016: Just end it already”</b> — might be the most representative of voter disenfranchisement and frustration with the politics-as-usual and wall-building candidates the two negligibly different parties coughed up as presumptive nominees.</div>
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Meteor’s, well, meteoric rise in popularity isn’t difficult to understand, given the circumstances. After all, another poll today <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/286105-majority-of-democrats-want-third-term-for-obama" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #dd3333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">revealed</a> a whopping 67 percent of Democratic voters would rather see President Obama stay in office for another term than endure a Hillary Clinton administration.</div>
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In addition to aversion to Clinton, Trump’s success could be attributed to the xenophobic vitriol and ‘fearanoid’ negativity <a href="http://theantimedia.org/chomsky-trump-rising-in-polls-for-same-reasons-germany-embraced-hitler/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #dd3333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">common</a> during similar periods of economic stratification that gave rise to such stunners as Adolf Hitler.</div>
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And while the Libertarian Party has made gains in popularity, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/21/gary-johnson-vp-pick-continues-longstanding-debate-over-libertarian-orthodoxy/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #dd3333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">grumblings</a> among party diehards indicate a preference for candidates other than Johnson.</div>
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Perhaps Giant Meteor’s astronomical rise in the polls could be easily brushed off with a laugh — or maybe, just maybe, the idea that a heavenly body careening to Earth to kill us all having more appeal than actual candidates for president of the United States proves the people know the jig is up.</div>
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Maybe now — in a year pockmarked by political turmoil, typically ruinous scandal, and blatantly fraudulent electoral dealings — the people will slam down their collective foot to say they’ve finally had enough of the ‘lesser of two evils’ bullshit so ingrained in the American electoral mindset.</div>
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One of the downsides of the government-run education system is that it teaches kids (though not necessarily overtly) that authority, truth, and knowledge all come from public (government-run) institutions. <br />
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Children are tested on the retention of trivia such as the date of an historical event - rather than the importance of what caused the event or why. </div>
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Creative thinking is often discouraged in favor of rote memorization and regurgitation of factoids that have little practical use in the real world. </div>
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This is one reason that I am very excited about the Maker Movement. The Maker Movement encourages is to be creative, to learn by applying skills in practical projects that they design and build themselves. With the advent of very inexpensive developer boards like the Arduino series of microcontrollers and the Raspberry Pi Linux Computer (all under $35 or so), kids are now more empowered to learn real-world practical skills by exploring, being resourceful, and the application of trial and error (rather than being taught that mistakes are wrong). </div>
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Since everything in the Maker Movement is Open-Source, software for projects is all free of charge. Kids and contribute to projects and have friends and other members of the Maker Community collaborate with them - thus teaching them how accomplishments are made in the real world (In contrast, most "collaboration" in public school is considered cheating). This teaches cooperation and teamwork in the pursuit of their goals rather than isolation and competition. </div>
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What's more is that these devices are so inexpensive that if they experience a catastrophic failure and they damage or destroy a device, it really isn't all that expensive of a lesson. </div>
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The Arduino Microcontrollers are great for bringing computing into the real/physical world. Lots of I/O pins allow software to control physical tings such as servos, motors, relays, pumps, LEDs, speakers, and more. Before long kids will be building their own robots using these devices. </div>
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The Raspberry Pi is more of a standard computer. It has an HDMI output which allows your HDTV to become a computer monitor. Four USB ports, Ethernet, an SD Card slot, Camera port, and GPIO pins, and the Linux-based OS make it extremely powerful. The NOOBS (New Out Of the Box) software includes a hackable version of Minecraft so that kids can learn to automate a lot of their gameplay or creations that they wish to build through writing software in Python. </div>
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How many times have you clicked a link on Facebook in order to read an article that interests you, only to be inundated by pop up ads and nag screens wanting you to subscribe, or pay to read past the introductory paragraph. <br />
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It may be easy to forget that Google is in the advertising business, and that as much as 40% of the internet traffic goes through them. While Google does the honorable thing of making ads simple, non-interruptive, non-distracting, and designed to not interfere with content, many other advertisers do not. <br />
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On Facebook, we have grown accustomed to clicking the "Like" button whenever we see something that we like, which makes sense. We like the idea of letting our friends know that they posted something of interest. <br />
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The same holds true for other Social Media sites - Google Plus, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest - they all make money by learning about your interests so they can match you up with people wanting to sell you something. <br />
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<b>Time for a New Kind of Like Button</b><br />
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What if you were able to show your appreciation for a blog post, article, photo, or video by anonymously donating a small amount of money without revealing anything about yourself or your likes? <br />
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This is happening now. Microtipping is here. I know there is a strong aversion to people thinking about having to pay to read content on the internet, but in this case it is completely voluntary. You do not need to pay to read or view the content - only as an act of appreciation after the fact. It is in every sense of the word- a tip. What's even better is that the money goes directly to the content provider and not an advertising firm. If someone posts a video that you like, you can pay them a small amount of money simply by clicking a "Like" button. The amount of money is up to you. <br />
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With conventional payment systems (credit/debit/EFT) microtipping was never possible due to the massive fees imposed on money transfers. This is why you see many retailers requiring a $10 minimum purchase for credit card transaction<br />
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But now we have Bitcoin. Bitcoin allows you to send money with little to no fees, and since a Bitcoin is divisible into 100 million units (called Satoshi), the amounts of money transferred can be very small- as small as 5400 Satoshi (approximately 0.02 USD as of this writing). With the use of Sidechains or aggregating off-Blockchain transactions, micro-tipping services can be made even smaller. <br />
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So would you be willing to spend a fraction of a penny to like a post in lieu of giving up your privacy? Would you rather give a small donation to the creator of the content, rather than to an advertising platform? <br />
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There are companies out there betting that you would. And you can get started right now. <br />
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<a href="https://www.changetip.com/" target="_blank">ChangeTip</a> is a great site that allows you to send tips to people posting on Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Text Messages, Skype, and more as well as receive tips for your content. They also give you the option of redirecting your received tips to a charity of your choice. <br />
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ChangeTip also makes tipping a bit more fun by giving monikers to different tip amounts. So, instead of sending "10,000 Satoshi" or "$0.25", you can send "a beer", "a cup of coffee", or "a burger", etc. <br />
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This is only the beginning of a new, bigger, and much more private Internet.<br />
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If you would like to show your appreciation for this article, feel free to <a href="http://living_free.tip.me/" target="_blank">Leave Me a Tip!</a>. <br />
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Thank you in advance!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619342244720167410.post-55012291967136782902016-01-30T12:56:00.000-08:002016-01-30T13:23:20.743-08:00Corrupt Judge, Corrupt Courts, Family Destroyed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Judge Switches Custody to "Known Abuser & Sexual Deviant"</b><br />
Mother-Son Bond "Reduced to Bread Crumbs"; Son "Dissociated"</div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">skinny, and he is completely disassociated."<br />- Tiffany Ann about son Sage taken away and given to father</span></div>
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A Texas family court, without cause, awarded custody of a ten-year-old boy from mom’s full-time care only to place him with a known abuser and sexual deviant.</div>
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“I did nothing wrong. No history of abuse or neglect, no drug addiction, no drinking problem, and no mental illness,” said Tiffany Ann Aliano, a divorced mother, and Army veteran. Yet, without her knowledge and consent, on March 28 her only son was forcibly removed from school and delivered to her ex-husband, Joseph William Burks.</div>
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“My world suddenly got turned upside down,” said Aliano. She went from being a single, working mom, tucking her son into bed each night, to having supervised visitation for just three hours every two weeks, at the cost of $60 per hour, she said.</div>
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“We had a routine: Boy Scouts on Monday, Lazy Tuesdays, homework, play Legos, build things, cuddling or just hanging out together.” She said her mother-son bond has been reduced to bread crumbs for the senseless purpose of rewarding a man who mentally, physically and sexually abused her.</div>
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...“I woke up one day and I was resting next to my son and my ex brought a stripper home and tried to make us all sleep together – he was high as can be,” she added. “Another time, he was having sex with a male neighbor, high on acid, cocaine, weed, you name it.”</div>
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Multiple Child Protective Services’ reports verify Burks’ repeated drug use, mental illness, domestic abuse, child abandonment, and his arrest and conviction records.</div>
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...“When I threatened to leave, he choked me until I passed out.”</div>
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In March 2013, while they were residing in Austin [Texas], she said she finally had the courage to leave him, and wound up returning to NY where she is originally from. In June 2013, she secured an Order of Protection against Burks from Nassau County Family Court.</div>
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Burks was ordered to stay away from her and their son, except for supervised visitation with a mental health professional.</div>
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...In June of 2014, Aliano said she was contacted by the Family Court in Austin who advised that Burks wanted supervised visitation. “I allowed it.” Thereafter, she said the Guardian ad Litem assigned, Angela Hardin, contacted Aliano via her attorney and threatened to arrest her if she did not forfeit her son for a month before trial.</div>
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“I was beside myself,” said Aliano. “I initially said no, but my lawyer said I have to comply or face prison time even though there were no criminal charges lodged against me.” When Aliano went to TX to meet with the GAL in person, she said Hardin was more interested in whether she was a community activist, than be concerned with the loving way mom and son interacted.</div>
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Since the New York Protective Order was transferred to Texas, Burks’ conditions are still in effect, but have been completely ignored by the Texas Family Court, she said. “I told the GAL about the rape and she said if I reported it, I will lose my son forever.”</div>
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Aliano said she believes the court is retaliating against her for filing a recusal motion requesting that Hon. Timothy Sulak, presiding judge of the 353rd District Court in Travis County, be removed from her case and sanctioned for his actions.</div>
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“My recusal motion was denied and I was ordered to pay $15,000, despite the fact I had a mountain of evidence to show that the judge was involved in money laundering and other crimes,” she added. “I plan to file an appeal, and I have already motioned the court for a new trial.”</div>
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This is Family Court corruption at its worst, said Aliano. “My son and I want to be together again, but the system is keeping us apart.”</div>
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Excerpts from:<br />
Audio Visual Net News<br />
<a href="http://avnetnews.net/2015/12/21/austin-mom-wants-her-son-back/" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://avnetnews.net/20…/…/21/austin-mom-wants-her-son-back/</a></div>
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Website: <a href="http://www.tiffanyaliano.com/" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.tiffanyaliano.com</a></div>
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Inside story:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChalkbeatNY/posts/10153620392875530" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ChalkbeatNY/posts/10153620392875530</a></div>
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Evidence against Judge Sulak:<br />
<a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiffanyaliano.com%2Fsulak%2F&h=mAQEgumlVAQH17SvyKp2F_U_YnxbFR7-AUhMersdc_Ru12w&enc=AZOO3WgoNvF7fs1rZYMxBAnPlLGjR9wXU0JZNapy7JEo8lko-0uddlfwMRuhXSw5JW759JB8EKmMlsAtf5JjRyXXQ47j_VHBD15d2RAP84wf2MSV2nQGYXfCeccF9Db0t4l0FI5vRNWzMZuON034roxvh599airG7CwolPofM07udf7o1lR1z7Xydcec9bhiQ2LXTQdKSpy4YLPeAiQ3kHmQ&s=1" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.tiffanyaliano.com/sulak/</a></div>
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Twitter: @TiffanyAliano</div>
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Gofundme: <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/legalfees4sage" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.gofundme.com/legalfees4sage</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619342244720167410.post-61941210079598685792015-11-21T19:13:00.000-08:002015-11-22T06:40:55.946-08:00A Timeline History of US Involvement in the Middle East<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #351c75;"><br />The Mainstream (State-controlled) Media has been selling the idea that Muslims of the Middle East hate America (and the West) because of their freedom. It's time to look at some of the US and British actions in the region over the past 100+ years to understand what the conflict is truly about. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">This timeline is by no means complete and is a work in progress. Hopefully, it will present a little bit about the other side that they aren't telling you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1912</b>: The Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC) is formed, with the intention of monopolizing all the oil exploration in Mesopotamia (now Syria & Iraq). The company was mostly owned by Deutsche Bank, and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anglo Saxon Oil Company/Royal Dutch Shell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1920</b>: The San Remo Conference is convened to divide up the lands that once comprised the Ottoman Empire as spoils of WWI. Syria is claimed by France, Palestine and Mesopotamia are claimed by the United Kingdom as protectorate colonies or mandatories. Other minor territories in the region in and out of the old Ottoman boundary are divied up as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1927</b>: Two years after receiving permission to explore Mesopotamia, TPC discovers oil, In order to receive permission to explore the land, they promised that the Iraqi government would get a percentage of the profits after the first 20 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Five American companies form the Near East Development Corporation (NEDC) which is added to the list of shareholders in the TPC. The NEDC is comprised of Atlantic Richfield Co (ARCO), Gulf Oil (Now Chevron), Pan-American Oil & Transport Co (now ExxonMobil and Amoco), Standard Oil of New York (now ExxonMobil), and Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil). The NEDC owned 23.75% of the TPC as did the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Royal Dutch Shell, and<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_S.A." style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;" title="Total S.A.">Compagnie Française des Pétroles</a>. </i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The remaining 5% was owned by Armenian businessman </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Calouste Gulbenkian.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1949</b>: The CIA, in concert with the leftist Syrian Social Nationalist Party, backed a military coup d'etat in Syria to oust the duly-elected government and install a government that supported the Trans Arabian Pipeline. The elected government had blocked the construction of the pipeline. Once the new government was put in place, construction on the project began immediately. </span><br />
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<b>1953</b>: The CIA orchestrates an overthrow of the democratically-elected government in Iran in response to the Iranian government's nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC; Now British Petroleum). The government nationalized the company after the AIOC refused to be audited by the Iranian government. The coup placed the Shah Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi in power as the ruling monarch, thus subverting the Iranian Parliament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1954</b>: This year began what Amnesty Inter<span style="background-color: white;">national called the "<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;">highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture which is beyond belief. No country in the world has a worse record in human rights than Iran.” This was due to the United States' funding and training of Iranian military, police, and Savak (Secret Police). The Shah that was installed by CIA and British operatives is so unpopular that he begins to rule using terrorist tactics in order to stay in power. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1955</b>: The United States forced the creation of the Baghdad Pact (later known as Middle East Treaty Organization) using promises of Foreign Aid (economic and military aid). The United States was not allowed to be an actual party in the agreement, but it would not have happened without their influence and the work of CIA Director John Dulles who was involved in the negotiations. Later that year, the United States joined the military committee of the alliance - CENTO. This was not surprising since the parties were all U.S. allies and puppets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1957-1958</b>: Annoyed with U.S. and British imperialism in the region, Syria and Egypt begin to unify. The United States responds by sending their Navy's Sixth Fleet to begin delivering weapons to neighboring puppet regimes. Syrian and Egyptian authorities discover evidence of "at least eight separate conspiracies to overthrow one or the other government, to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Nasser, and/or prevent the merger of the two countries. Later on evidence shows that the several of these conspiracies were in-fact attempted and failed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1958</b>: Mass rioting erupts in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Iraqi troops enter Jordan in an attempt to quell the violence. Under popular pressure, the army mutinies and kills the Iraqi King, Crown Prince, and Prime Minister. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following day, the hated, CIA-backed Lebanese president Camille Chamoun invited the US Marines into Lebanon. Over 14,000 Marines land in Lebanon, while British troops invade Jordan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1963</b>: After the United States attempted to assassinate the Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassam, the Ba'ath Party of Iraq initiates a coup with the help of US operatives. The Ba'ath party begins slaughtering enemies of the CIA, which provided the Ba'ath party with a list of names of people they wanted killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1968</b>: Iraq conducts a counter-coup against the government installed by the U.S. Saddam Hussein was one of the participants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CIA and Israeli operatives conduct covert military operations against Iraq. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kurdish officials/rebels secretly meet with CIA in Washington DC. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Iran and Iraq both agree to close their border and sign a peace agreement in 1975. The United States is unhappy about this. They withdraw all support for the Kurds. 200,000 Kurds are deported and approximately 20,000 are murdered - later when Saddam Hussein becomes president, another 180,000 Kurds are murdered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>March 1975</b>: the US outlaws any open contact or communication between American officials and Kurds. The Iraqi government begins their long genocide campaign against the Kurds, killing thousands using conventional and chemical weapons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1979</b>: Mustafa Barzani, former leader of the Kurdish rebels dies in Washington DC. His final words were used to express his regret over having trusted the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In January, the United States organizes and conducts a coup in an attempt to keep the Shah in power and fails. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Shi'a take over Iran led by Ayatollah Khomeini. The United States publicly supports the Ayatollah's control over the Kurds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">President Jimmy Carter declares the Persian Gulf to be a vital US interest and that the United States is willing to go to war for the oil in the region. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">USSR moves military forces to northern Iran. Jimmy Carter secretly puts US forces on nuclear alert and warns the Soviet Union that the US will use nuclear weapons against them if needed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the summer, the United States begins arming and training the fundamentalist Mujahideen radicals in Afghanistan. Between 1979 and 1989, the United States supplies $3 billion in weapons to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and another $3 billion to their counterparts in Saudi Arabia. US builds training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Mujahideen (many of which were bombed by the US in 2001). The US intends to force the USSR into an unwinnable quagmire in Afghanistan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In October, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jimmy Carter admits the Shah into the United States so that he can receive a life-saving medical operation. This angers the Shi'a Muslims in power and places all Americans in Iran in danger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">November 4, Iranian militants seize the US Embassy in Tehran and take hostages, demanding that the Shah be returned to Iran to face trial. The United States refuses and the hostages are held for 444 days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In December, the USSR invades Afghanistan as the US hoped they would. The US sees USSR as a threat to their oil interests in Iran/Iraq. US supplies weapons to anyone willing to fight the Soviets (e.g. Mujahideen, Al Qaeda, Taliban). The US takes Iraq off of their terrorist nation list and supplies Saddam Hussein with advanced weaponry to fight the soviets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 12 years, over 1 million Afghans are killed, 3 million injured, and 5 million end up as refugees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jimmy Carter begins sending Naval warships to the Persian Gulf. The US uses their Naval forces to put pressure on both Iran and Iraq with the intention of prolonging the conflict. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1982</b>: Using money and weapons from the United States, Israel invades Lebanon killing 20,000 anti-US Lebanese and Palestinians.</span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />In September, the pro-American Lebanese president-elect, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bashir al-Jumayyil,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is assassinat</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ed. The following day, Israeli forces, who falsely assumed the Palestinians were behind the assassination, invade Beirut and kill over 1000 men, women, and children. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1983</b>: US invades Lebanon in order to protect Israeli occupying forces. They later withdraw from the area when a suicide bomber blows himself up in the Marine Corps barracks. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1984</b>: US shoots down Iranian fighter jets over the Persian Gulf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1985</b>: US begins secretly shipping advanced weaponry to Iran at inflated prices, using the profits to fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eighty people are killed when a US attempt to ass</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">assinate Lebaniese Shi'ite leader </span>Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah fails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1990</b>: After accusing Kuwait of stealing their oil and over producing in order to drive oil prices down, Iraq invades Kuwait and within two days defeats them and claims Kuwait as an Iraqi province. Other cited reasons for the invasion were that Iraq was unable to pay back the debt they owed from their war with Iran (caused by the US). Low oil prices (for which they blamed Kuwait) at the time were not helping Iraq pay back this debt. The United States leads a coalition to remove Iraq's occupational forces from Kuwait, but chooses to leave Saddam Hussein in power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1991</b>: Inspired by the quick defeat of Saddam Hussein by the United States, Shia Muslims in southern Iraq and Kurdish rebels in the north seize this opportunity to revolt against Saddam's government. In less than two weeks, 15 of the 18 Iraqi provinces are liberated from Saddam Husseins control. Just as it appears that the Iraqi people will be free from tyranny, the United States refuses to offer any support to the rebellion. This inspired Iraqi forces to crush the rebellion. Finally the United States steps after massive calls for humanitarian support. As hundreds of thousands of Kurds flee to the north, the US establishes a No-Fly zone in order to offer them some limited protection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By this time it is abundantly clear to the Kurds, the Iraqi people, and the Shia Muslims throughout the region that the United States wants Saddam Hussein in power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1995</b>: Turkey launches an attack against the Kurds in northern Iraq with US support. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<a href="https://www.popularresistance.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Popular Resistance</span></a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1949_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wikipedia.org</span></a><br />
<a href="http://usmeforeignpolicy.umwblogs.org/intervention-timeline/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">US Foreign Policy in the Middle East</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coup" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Guardian: CIA Admits Role in 1953 Iranian Coup</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/cron.html">The Kurds - A Chronology | The Survival of Saddam</a></span><br />
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Even if you have to wait over 50 years, eventually the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">truth</span> will out…</div>
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Suspicions that the CIA covered up <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/jfks-death-one-of-many-november-conspiracies/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">JFK</a>‘s murder have finally been confirmed, according to an explosive <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">Politico</span> <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/jfk-assassination-john-mccone-warren-commission-cia-213197?curator=MediaREDEF" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">report</a> out this week. Fifty-two years after the President’s death, declassified <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">documents</span> show that the CIA were in communication with alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald <em>before</em> JFK’s murder in 1963, and they were monitoring his mail since 1959.</div>
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Not only that but John McCone, who was Chief of the CIA at the time, allegedly hid evidence from the Warren commission, set up by Lyndon Johnson to investigate JFK’s assassination. The spymaster and other senior CIA <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">officials</span> are accused of withholding ‘incendiary’ information from the commission and therefore perverting the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">course</span> of justice. The CIA has admitted this.</div>
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The Politico <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">report</span> is based on evidence given by CIA historian David Robarge. He has claimed the cover-up was intended to keep the commission focused on “what the agency believed at the time was the best truth- that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone in killing John Kennedy.” McCone directed the CIA to provide only “passive, reactive and selective” assistance to the Warren commission, meaning the investigation was severely compromised and did not follow up any other leads which may have been crucial in the<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">search</span> for truth.</div>
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Robarge also believes that John McCone, who died in 1991, withheld vital information relating to various CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. The historian points out that these plots may well be linked to <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/in-defence-of-conspiracy-theories/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">JFK</a>‘s assassination – there’s a strong chance his murder was a revenge attack for CIA operations in Cuba- but McCone’s unwillingness to explore other potentialities outside of prime suspect Lee Harvey Oswald could have resulted in a grave miscarriage of justice.</div>
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<a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/gab_gallery/the-speech-that-got-john-f-kennedy-killed/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">JFK</a> was America’s youngest ever and most charismatic President, and his death shocked the nation. Alternative murder theories are popular across the States: A 2013 <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/165893/majority-believe-jfk-killed-conspiracy.aspx" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">poll</a> found that only 30% of Americans believe Oswald shot JFK, and that he acted alone. 61% believed that others were involved in a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">conspiracy</span> (see the embedded video to find out why).</div>
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David Robarge first published these exclusive claims in a secret internal CIA magazine in 2013. His claims have now been declassified and can be publicly accessed <a href="http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB493/docs/intell_ebb_026.PDF" rel="nofollow" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a> on the George Washington University’s National Security <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">Archive</span>. Robarge has also written a biography of John McCone, but his book continues to be <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">classified</span>. What else might the historian have uncovered? Here’s hoping that the full truth of what happened in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day will very soon be <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">common</span> knowledge.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619342244720167410.post-89766770329268747182015-04-26T19:35:00.002-07:002015-04-26T19:58:48.807-07:00Four Reasons Why Jews and Other Victims of the Nazi Regime Stayed in Germany<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>hen we look back at the atrocities of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia against so many millions of people, one can't help but wonder why those people stayed in their countries when they had so much time and opportunity to leave before things got so terrible.<br>
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Why didn't the German Jews leave in the early or mid-1930s when the government and pubic opinion was really starting to get hostile to them? Why did they stay in Germany until they were no-longer allowed to leave? Did they not see what was coming? <br>
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When a government becomes hostile to a group of people, why do those people stay instead of finding friendlier lands to raise their families? <br>
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Here are four reasons why people choose to remain in a miserable state which endangers themselves and their children.<br>
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<b>Patriotism</b><br>
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Patriotism is often described as one's loyalty to their country. In the United States, many people will <br>
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say they love their country, but dislike their government. What do they mean by country? When asked, they will often speak of the geography of the area they live in or speak about some of the ideals that the government is supposed to have (whether or not they actually exist). Many Americans explain their patriotism using terms like "freedom or democracy" to describe their government. When it is pointed out that the government restricts their freedom, they often turn a blind eye and refuse to listen, or they make excuses - passing on the governments' reasoning (war on terror, etc). <br>
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Government uses the emotions of the people to keep them loyal, no matter how much abuse they endure. Government spends millions of dollars to fly fighter jets over full stadiums, while the National Anthem plays, and fireworks light up the sky, to catch people when they are in an emotional state <br>
(before their favorite sports team's big game). Logic goes out the window, only feelings matter. It doesn't matter that the NSA is listening on every one of your phone calls, reading every email and text, and your local police are militarizing in your home town. The waving flags, images of wounded combat troops on the Jumbo-Tron, and the tune of America the Beautiful playing in the background all tell you that you're free and you're safe, while at the same time convincing you that you live in the greatest country on earth, and that it's hell everywhere else. <br>
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These same tactics were in place in Nazi Germany. While having just suffered defeat, they sold the idea that Germany can be great again and that it will rise to the ideals on which they believed they were founded and destined to bring to the primitive outside world. <br>
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Most German Jews were proud Germans who believed strongly in the enlightened ideals that their government promised. They believed Germany to be the greatest nation on earth. They loved their freedom and saw their lack of actual freedom as a small price to pay for their security and imagined freedom. <br>
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The Nazis instilled a sense of pride in Das Vaterland. The Soviets taught their children about the Call of their Motherland. Children in the United States are taught about the need for Homeland security. The names differ slightly, but that tactic is the same.<br>
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Love and pride in the Fatherland, Motherland or Homeland have proven to be a plague that allows insane megalomaniacs to be catapulted into power.<br>
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You've heard it uttered by many people, phrases like "My grandfather built this house! This is where I'm going to stay!" or "My ancestors settled this land, this is where I'm gonna die!" or something along those lines.<br>
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German Jews have a history in that area that goes back as far as 1500 years. For much of that time, they fared pretty well overall. Many European Jews had ancestors who fled from other lands and settled somewhat safely in that area. But it's important to remember that just like we are warned in buying financial products, <i>past performance is not an indicator of future success. </i>Just because things used to be good doesn't mean they will continue to be. <br>
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In the U.S., over 59% of the people die within the state that they were born in. Many of them never see other states, let-alone other countries. So many people exist in a prison of their own creation. The citizens of the United States are well-known world-wide as being the least cosmopolitan people on earth. In other words, the people of the United States tend to live in a bubble of isolation, fully convinced that where they live is the best place on earth, while never having stepped foot anywhere else.<br>
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To a thinking person, this is insanity. Science <a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/emotions/isolation-effects.htm" target="_blank">demonstrates the detrimental effects of isolation on the human brain.</a> <br>
<br>Sadly, this accurately describes over half of the U.S population. While it may not be the clinical definition of insanity, it is clearly not a healthy worldview. <br>
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We all know the old adage that teaches us to <i>walk a mile in someone's shoes before you judge them </i>but, statistically speaking, Americans have pretty much made up their minds that they are better than all the other countries without even leaving their living rooms. <br>
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Then there are the others who hold paradoxical beliefs. They do go visit other countries for vacation. While they know their country is the best, they have their favorite "getaway spots" where they go to enjoy a small bit of sanity for a couple weeks before returning to their 50 weeks of miserable "real world" life. To them, the getaway is not real... it's a fantasy that they get to indulge in briefly. They never stop to think that perhaps - just maybe - the people that live in those places they visit might have a better and happier life. That's not possible in their minds, because we all know that this is the best country on Earth. <br>
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Much of this is the result of public schooling which has over the years indoctrinated us all from our early childhood that America was the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, Land of Opportunity, etc. From Kindergarten and even preschool, children are taught to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, without even understanding the meaning of the words they recite. This programming is everywhere, all around us at all times. <br>
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Being rooted in one geographic area for an entire lifetime is bad, but generations and generations of <br>
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living in one place is much worse. The world is vast and liberty never thrives in one place. In fact, the very definition of liberty is the ability to travel to other locations without hindrance. Notice that this is usually what governments work to restrict first - by creating their borders and then regulating the movement across those borders - all under the guise of keeping you safe from dirty outsiders and of course to protect "your" jobs. Once they have you confined to an area within their "jurisdiction", you are much easier to control, tax/rob, and manipulate for their nefarious purposes. A slave that is unwilling to leave the plantation saves the plantation owner from the hassle of building a fence and hiring guards. In fact, in the United States, they have even figured out how to convince the slaves to demand a fence with guards, electronic monitoring, and drone surveillance! <br>
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For each one of these crises, the government sets itself up as the supposed protector. While government is usually painfully slow at doing anything, for these panics, there seems to instantly be a very large and extensive set of bills introduced into the various legislatures overnight. The solution is always the same... More power for them and less liberty for you. <br>
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While all this is going on, the U.S. Department of State is issuing travel warnings telling citizens about the dangers of going to foreign lands. It should be noted that the State Department has been placed under the control of the Department of Homeland Security. <br>
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The belief that things would get better. This is based on a false assumption that government wants to fix problems. The fact is that government wants and needs people to be dependent on them. That is the source of their power and wealth. Government creates dependents by crippling people's ability to fend for themselves, to feed their families, or make a living. Ever-increasing taxation, regulatory <br>
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burdens, inflation, and an ever-growing body of laws that restrict freedom and stifle innovation force the victims into accepting government assistance at every turn and to welcome government into every aspect of their lives. With this, they begin to feel that by making their voice heard either at the ballot box, or some administrative bureau that things can improve. That is never the case. Government never reduces its power. It exists to grow in scope and power and exists only for the sake of its own expansion. Power is never returned to the people voluntarily. They only lose it in revolution, which is usually violent and only succeeds in replacing the old government with a newer one which will grow and do the same as the one just replaced sometime in the future.<br>
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Many of the Jews of Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s did not believe that the persecution against them would continue indefinitely. They believed that the state valued their industrious nature and that ultimately the government would see that they needed the Jewish people. At that time, 24% of Germany's Nobel Prize winners were Jewish. Many Jewish leaders believed that they would find safety and redemption in the fact that they drove a large part of the German economy. Their mistake was in thinking that the government values the same things that the people do. A booming economy does not serve the state. The state seeks something different - it seeks power and self-realized and self-sufficient people are a threat to state's quest to achieve its desires. <br>
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Revolution will only replace one deadly and corrupt government with one that people think is less so. Revolution is not the answer. Evolution beyond nations, beyond states, and beyond government will bring a true and lasting peace. Self-rule is the beginning of a liberated world.<br>
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