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Prepping - Finding Your Way Home Without A Compass — Source: Gaye Levy and Jim Cobb for BackdoorSurvival.com The logical thing, of course, would be to have maps and a compass on board at all times. The first reality is that a disaster, whether wrought by Mother Nature or man, can happen when we least suspect it. The second reality is […]

Finding Home Without a Map or Compass

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Ferguson

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1,147 Dead in Drone Strikes Targeting Only 41

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Venezuela Runs Out of Toilet Paper

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State Department Stalls FOIA Request — Source: Muckrock.com The State Department has taken over three years on a FOIA request about how long it takes to process FOIA requests Agency has revised the estimated completion date for its estimated completion date methodology seven times Back in 2013, a young Shawn Musgrave filed a FOIA […]

State Dept Stalls FOIA Request About Stalling FOIA Requests

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Seven Lesser Known Classical Liberal Thinkers — 1. Herbert Spencer Recommended reading: Social Statics A polymath, Herbert Spencer was originally known for his writing on biology. He coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” used to describe the process of natural selection. Spencer rose to prominence by extending the lessons of biological evolution to politics and sociology. […]

7 Lesser-Known Classical Liberal Thinkers

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Whistleblowers’ Lawyer Jesselyn Radack

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Three Women of Libertarianism: Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, Ayn Rand — Amidst the worst of times, three bold women banished fear. They dared to declare that collectivism was evil. They stood up for natural rights, the only philosophy that provided a moral basis for opposing tyranny everywhere. They celebrated old-fashioned rugged individualism. They envisioned a future when people could again be […]

3 Women of Libertarianism

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Thousands of Police Shootings – Only 54 Officers Charged

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

Laura Poitras Print Interview 8-18-15

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Direct Primary Care Article — Patty Wight for MPBNNews

Direct Primary Care Reinvigorates Maine Doctors, Patients

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Chaos Gets A Bad Rap

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

Sanity in Trump Tower

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Manuel De Landa Essay — https://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/de_landa/antiMarkets.html

Manuel De Landa on Markets & Antimarkets

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Source: The World Says No To Surveillance in the New York Times MOSCOW — TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records […]

Edward Snowden NYT Op-Ed 6-4-15

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