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Date Sent: 2011-06-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Weekend, June 25-26, 2011 |
Autistic UK teen hacker denied bail -- Florida Governor Wants Foreclosures Out of the Courts
LulzSec hacker group says Internet rampage over -- US Mortgages: 26.8% Rejection Rate -- US Copyright Legislation to Stifle Investment in Internet and Throttle Innovation -- We're Next: UK Copyright Lobby to Discuss National Internet Censorship --
The Credit Default Swaps That Underlie the Greek Crisis -- Chinese
Toxic Food and Whole Foods Lawsuit – Who’s to Blame? -- Is there a
smoking fire at Citigroup as head of risk management abruptly resigns?
-- Industries gaining and losing jobs since 2008 (Charts) -- Banker
Occupation of Greece -- Two bombs found at Denver area shopping mall, FBI says -- Researchers
take dinosaurs’ temperature with teeth -- Status Quo’s
Biggest Fear: Renewable Energy Will Change the Game -- Was Gaddafi's
Plan for a Gold Currency the Reason NATO Attacked Libya? -- Is This How
the Takeover Will Come When the Cities are Ripped Apart by Rioters? --
Police The Largest Street Gang in America! -- Wisconsin Justice Prosser allegedly grabbed another
judge around the neck in argument -- Food Not Bombs members arrested for
serving food without a permit --
Google To Unleash An Army Of Developers Against Skype -- Ron Paul Slams
Absurd Libya War Powers Debate -- TSA Groping Bill Up For Vote In
Texas Senate Monday -- Obama Announces $500 Million Taxpayer Investment in Robots
and Other Advanced Manufacturing Tech -- Experts
make case for Biometrics in cell phones -- VW Adds Autopilot, Says Keep Your Eyes on the Road --
An Ultra-Low-Calorie, Low-Carb Diet is Sufficient to
Reverse Type 2 Diabetes -- End of the Internet as We Know It --
Breaching Gaza's Siege -- International Lobby Emerging on Drugs
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday with Alan Korwin on "The Global Collapse"
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News Link • Internet
British teenage hacker denied bail, diagnosed with autism
06-25-2011
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RawStory.com
A British teenager accused of attacking websites as part of an international hacking group was remanded in custody at a court Saturday, despite being diagnosed with autism.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Florida Governor Wants to Take Foreclosures Out of the Courts
06-25-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Florida continues to show a rather disconcerting willingness to throw its citizens’ rights under the bus to help the banks.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
LulzSec hacker group says Internet rampage over
06-26-2011
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RawStory.com
Lulz Security hacker group said that it has ended an Internet rampage that included cyberattacks on videogame companies, police, and even a US spy agency website.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Housing
US Mortgages: 26.8% Rejection Rate
06-26-2011
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Ritholtz.com & WSJ.com
Mortgage application denial rates last year were highest in the South and along the Rust belt, according to a WSJ analysis.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
US Copyright Legislation to Stifle Investment in Internet and Throttle Innovation
06-26-2011
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homemediamagazine.com/
More than 50 venture capitalists submitted a letter to the U.S. Congress June 23, objecting to a piece of antipiracy legislation being mulled by the Senate.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
We're Next: UK Copyright Lobby to Discuss National Internet Censorship
06-26-2011
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boingboing.net
A group of UK copyright lobbyists held confidential, closed-door meetings with Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries to discuss a plan to allow industry groups to censor the Internet in the UK.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Credit Default Swaps That Underlie the Greek Crisis
06-26-2011
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
I always thought that a crisis would be put forward as an opportunity for the 'one-worlders' to once again promote their idea of a one world government, and a universal order of central financial authority that eventually and inevitably evolves...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Social Cost of the Loss of Job Stability and Careers
06-26-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Yankelovich projected that college graduates would average 11 jobs by the time they were 38 (!), yet found they were demanding of their employers, wanting frequent feedback (as in lots of attention) and quick advancement.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Driver Of Employment "Gains" - Job Separations At Lowest In A Decade
06-26-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The bottom line, the "employment gains" have not been due to increased hiring, but due to ever more desperate people no longer daring to leave whatever job security they may have...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Chinese Toxic Food and Whole Foods Lawsuit " Who’s to Blame?
06-26-2011
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Farm Wars
Toxic Chinese organic veggies and Whole Foods: Monsanto's USDA NOP program seems to be getting away scot-free while Whole Foods takes the rap in typical Mafioso fashion.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Money Bomb
Is there a smoking fire at Citigroup as head of risk management abruptly resigns?
06-26-2011
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The Political Commentator
Heads up for conspiracy theorists as Jerry Grundhofer, head of risk management and finance committee abruptly resigns as a Citibank director!
Is there more to the story in the scheme of the ongoing financial crisis or is just another guy who wants
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The camera that lets you focus AFTER you've taken the picture - Lytro
06-26-2011
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Dailymail.co.uk via Rense.com
The Lytro will let photographers snap the scene and then choose what to focus on, via their computer, after taking the picture. Pretty cool.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Industries gaining and losing jobs since 2008 (Charts)
06-26-2011
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The Political Commentator
What industries in the U.S. have experienced the greatest job losses and job gains since 2008?
The economy is down 6.3 million jobs since 2008 with the greatest job losses coming in construction and manufacturing. No surprise there.
While Presi
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Wal-Mart hikes branded diabetes drug prices
06-25-2011
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RawStory.com
Big-box retailers Wal-Mart Stores and Kmart, pioneers in the push to cut consumer prices for generic drugs, have been raising prices for the most popular brand-name diabetes drugs, according to a new study.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
E. Coli: Some Answers, Many Questions Still
06-25-2011
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Maryn McKenna via WIRED.com
The past few days have seen the simultaneous publication of the first vetted medical-journal pieces on the vast European outbreak of E. coli O104. They’re fascinating for what they report that is new about this perplexing epidemic
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News Link • Energy
What You Learned About Static Electricity Is Wrong
06-25-2011
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Ars Technica via WIRED
Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass and wool, or a balloon and a cotton T-shirt
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News Link • Energy
Status Quo’s Biggest Fear: Renewable Energy Will Change the Game
06-25-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
A new energy source, one that we ourselves could produce, and the technology and economic force it would release would empower us to take control of our lives and the future. We’d no longer look to the system, but to ourselves...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Was Gaddafi's Plan for a Gold Currency the Reason NATO Attacked Libya?
06-25-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
There are a number of reasons that European and U.S. interests have incentive to go after Gaddafi. Gaddafi's plan for a new gold backed currency is likely one of them.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Martial Law
Is This How the Takeover Will Come When the Cities are Ripped Apart by Rioters?
06-25-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Mayor Nagin writes that he and his top aides were in the Hyatt’s fourth-floor command center when about 20 men entered, “dressed in black combat outfits and adorned in bulletproof vests, rifles, and leg straps holding at least two very large handguns
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years
06-25-2011
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Dylan Tweney via WIRED.com
High on a rocky ridge in the desert, nestled among the brush, is the topmost part of a clock that has been ticking for thousands of years.
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News Link • Government
Wisconsin Justice Prosser allegedly grabbed another judge around the neck in argument
06-25-2011
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Kase Wickman via RawStory.com
Justice David Prosser, who already had his share of press this year after long-fought re-election campaign to Wisconsin's Supreme Court, is again in the spotlight after allegedly grabbing one of his colleagues around the neck during an argument.
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News Link • Communications
Google To Unleash An Army Of Developers Against Skype
06-25-2011
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Business Insider via Rense.com
Microsoft/Skype should be shaking in its boots.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Libya
Ron Paul Slams Absurd Libya War Powers Debate
06-25-2011
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PrisonPlanet.com
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, came down hard today against a House bill (HR 2278) that would have limited the use of funds for the U.S.’s involvement in the Libya War.
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News Link • Libya
U.S. House keeps Libya funding, fails to authorize mission
06-25-2011
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Xinhua & RT via PrisonPlanet.com
A resolution that bars most funding for the U.S. military mission in Libya failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, shortly after another measure authorizing the Libya mission suffered the same fate.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Spy-Like Sunglasses Shoot and Share Videos
06-25-2011
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Corinne Iozzio via PopSci.com
Rather than let life pass you by, save it. With the camera-equipped Eyez glasses, users can share point-of-view video without the clunky cameras and nettlesome file transfers that rabid uploaders typically endure.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Years After Crash Landing in 2004, NASA's Genesis Reveals Data About Solar Chemistry
06-25-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Back in 2001, NASA launched a mission named Genesis toward the sun to collect solar particles streaming from our star and return them to Earth. Genesis arrived back on Earth right on time in 2004, but all didn’t go according to plan.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Obama Announces $500 Million Investment in Robots and Other Advanced Manufacturing Tech
06-25-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Robots, nanotechnology and other manufacturing of the future can reposition the U.S. as a global technology leader and revitalize the nation’s flagging economy, President Obama said Friday morning.
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News Link • Transportation
Volkswagen Debuts Self-Driving 'Temporary Autopilot' For New Cars
06-25-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Drivers of Volkswagens could soon forget about fender benders or lane drifting on the Autobahn " their cars will take care of those little problems.
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News Link • Surveillance
Experts make case for Biometrics in cell phones
06-25-2011
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thirdfactor.com
Separate from security intrinsic to the phone, however, is the idea of utilizing biometric systems to secure transactions and other functions completed via the mobile phone but in an online environment.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
“I’ll Be Gone"You’ll Be Gone” -- Democracy vs. Kleptocracy
06-25-2011
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Gonzalolira.blogspot.com/
In other words, by the time this mess blows up, we’ll be out of the picture, and therefore scot-free.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Black Swan Has Become The National Bird
06-25-2011
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news.goldseek.com
The black swans can be organized into groups. They are numerous within each important economic and financial camp. The Armada of Black Swans, well organized into regiments, has become dominant enough to be considered the New Normal.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
VW Adds Autopilot, Says Keep Your Eyes on the Road
06-25-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Researchers at Volkswagen have joined the growing list of teams working on autonomous vehicles. Now, as part of a demonstration project, they’ve converted a Passat to drive with minimal driver supervision.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Recommendation Engine: How Do I Avoid Being an iSheep?
06-25-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Apple’s sexy hardware and safe ecosystem lured me in, but I hate being an iSheep. Should I flee"or double down with an iPhone 5?
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News Link • How To
Save Gas When You Drive
06-25-2011
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http://howto.wired.com/
From the no-brainer to the absurd, the simple to the stupid, greenies and cheapskates alike have been perfecting ways of getting the most out of every gallon of gasoline.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Japanese PossessedHand Electric Wristband Moves Your Fingers For You
06-25-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Researchers at Tokyo University, along with some help from Sony, created a device that straps onto your arm, sort of like a blood pressure cuff, and sends electrical signals to your fingers that can move them in precise ways.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
An Ultra-Low-Calorie, Low-Carb Diet is Sufficient to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
06-25-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Patients who consumed only 600 calories a day for two months were able to reverse their Type 2 diabetes, according to a groundbreaking British study.
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News Link • Internet
End of the Internet as We Know It
06-25-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
A new Internet protocol will vastly increase the number of addresses from which devices can connect.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernankenstein's Monster
06-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The problem we’re experiencing now is that the system is imploding. It’s a slow motion implosion.
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News Link • Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide Levels Hit New High
06-25-2011
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arclein
If present trends of a 1.5"2ppm annual increase in CO2 levels continue, there is little chance of stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations at 450 ppm. This would only result in a 50% likelihood of limiting global warming to 2C. Climate scientists sa
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robert klein
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Dietary Clay
06-25-2011
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arclein
"We found that it was pregnant women and young children who are eating clay, those who are the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It was occurring where the pathogen density was higher, in warm, moist climates," Cornell University researcher S
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robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
International Lobby Emerging on Drugs
06-25-2011
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arclein
commissioners hail from 15 countries around the world, from North and Latin America, to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. They are four former presidents, United Nations dignitaries, authors and intellectuals, health and security officials, NGO di
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Atlantis Subsidence
06-25-2011
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arclein
My key point is that the land mass of the Bahamas Bank was locked and cocked to subside. This immediately begs the question of whether the same holds true for all of Florida. That is the remaining exception of lands not subsided yet.
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