American Minute with Bill Federer MAY 25 - 'The less government we have, the better'-Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Minute with Bill Federer MAY 25 - 'The less government we have, the better'-Ralph Waldo Emerson "The less government we have, the better," wrote poet Ralph Waldo Emerson.   This line was echoed in 1849 by Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience: "That government is best which governs least." Ralph Waldo Emerson continued:   "The fewer laws...the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual."   Born MAY 25, 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a friend of writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:   "America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race."      Ralph Waldo Emerson composed some of the best loved poems in American literature, including The Concord Hymn, of which a stanza is inscribed on the base of Daniel Chester French's Minute Man Statue: "By the rude bridge that arched the flood,   Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;   Here once the embattled farmers stood;   And fired the shot heard round the world."     Ralph Waldo Emerson commented on John Quincy Adams: "No man could read the Bible with such powerful effect, even with the cracked and winded voice of old age." In 1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson visited Paris between the February Revolution and the bloody June Days. When he saw that mobs had cut down trees near the Champ de Mars to form barricades across downtown city streets, he wrote in his journal: "At the end of the year we shall...see if the Revolution was worth the trees." When abolitionist publisher Elijah Lovejoy was murdered in 1838 and his printing press destroyed, Emerson said: "It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob, for the rights of free speech and opinion." During the Civil War, Emerson lectured at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., stating: "Emancipation is the demand of civilization." Charles Sumner took Emerson to the White House to meet Lincoln. Emerson stated: "I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom." In 1865, Emerson spoke at a memorial service for Lincoln: "I doubt if any death has caused so much pain as this has caused." On September 12, 2001, the day after the fundamentalist Muslim terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Congressman J.C. Watts, Jr., quoted Emerson: "Politics has taken the day off. Today Congress remembers and recognizes the afflicted and the sorrowing and those who come to the aid of their fellow man. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1842, captured what we are thinking as a nation today: 'Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.'"       In May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:    Boston Hymn, st. 2 -    "God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor."    Voluntaries III-   "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can."    Ode, st. 5 -    "United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue."   Fragment-    "Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill."     Get the DVD-Miracles in American History In The Conduct of Life (1860), Emerson wrote:   Fate -   "Men are what their mothers made them."     Regarding civilization, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:   "The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out."     In Social Aims, Emerson wrote:   "Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."   In The American Scholar (1837), Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:   "In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God?"     Ralph Waldo Emerson stated: "All I have seen has taught me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."   Get the book, American Minute- Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They Occurred  To read MORE American Minute Click Here  Watch Faith in History Click Here   News from AmericanMinute.com Invite Bill Federer to speak: 314-487-4395 wjfederer@gmail.com www.AmericanMinute.com  Click Here Join Bill Federer for a tour of Israel http://gfm.heritagestudyprograms.com/ Get the classic book, AMERICA'S GOD AND COUNTRY Consider teaching English overseas AND GET PAID FOR IT.   Receive the daily minute on your Facebook wall, Twitter feed, or RSS reader. 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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk

Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk

‘Common Core’ Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called “conservative” Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the “No Child Left Behind” act. During my time in Congress I heard nothing but complaints about this law from teachers, administrators, and, most importantly, students and parents. Most of the complaints concerned No Child Left Behind’s testing requirements, which encouraged educators to “teach to the test.” Full article here: http://tinyurl.com/ooewyu3 You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to Congressman Ron Paul's Weekly Column. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

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Boy Scouts: 'Don't Surrender'

Boy Scouts: 'Don't Surrender'   HANOVER, Penn., May 23, 2013 /Standard Newswire/ -- The Boy Scouts of America received 24,208 petitions today from Tradition, Family and Property Student Action. "If the Boy Scouts decide to surrender their moral values, they will crumble away like a dry cookie," said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie. "We just submitted the urgent concern of 24,208 students, parents, and patriotic Americans who have signed our petition urging the Boy Scouts of America not to change its morally sound membership policy," Ritchie said. "A large number of petition signees are involved in Scouting: Boy Scouts, Eagle Scouts, and Scoutmasters." "Parents understand how the public acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle would not only undermine the moral atmosphere of the Scouts, but also increase the risk of sexual abuse," stated Ritchie. "An in-depth study published by the Family Research Council demonstrates that homosexuals, who account for approximately two percent of the population, are responsible for up to one third of child sexual abuse cases." "The inclusion of open homosexuality into the ranks of the Boys Scouts will create moral confusion, especially among impressionable boys, who are already bombarded by our hyper-sexualized culture. Moreover, if the Boy Scouts change currently policy, countless God-fearing parents across the nation will withdraw their children from its ranks and cease contributing time and resources," he said. "For the good of so many boys, and their families, I've presented the urgent request of 24,208 Americans to the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America. Our message is simple: Don't surrender your moral values. Keep your honor. Stand strong." Here is the group's petition. TFP Student Action's mission is to defend moral values on college campuses nationwide. The Catholic group's 72,000 members and volunteers are often found on the front lines of the culture war, peacefully fighting to preserve the perennial values of Christian Civilization. Standard Newswire To: National Desk Contact: John Ritchie, Director, Tradition, Family and Property Student Action, 717-495-5427 Tradition, Family and Property Student Action

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Liberty Quotes

"[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the
old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force
in the government."
-- James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source: letter to Thomas Jefferson, March 14, 1794
http://books.google.hn/books?id=w9l2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false
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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!"
-- Ludwig von Mises
(1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher
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"We've been asleep for about 50 years.
Ever since the end of World War II
we just steadily handed our future and
our bank accounts and now our children,
handed them all over to the federal government..."
-- Michael Moriarty
(1941) American-Canadian stage and screen actor, jazz musician
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"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." -- Alexis de Tocqueville
[Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859) French historian
Source: Democracy in America, Vol. II (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), Chap. 6
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so long as they kept within
the bounds of the known law,
there was no need to
ask anybody's permission
or to obey anybody's orders.
It is doubtful whether any of us
can make this claim today."
-- Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
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of the forest and the outlaw."
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ANTIDEPRESSANTS & SCHOOL VIOLENCE VIDEO - WILL SANDY HOOK PROVE TO BE YET ANOTHER?

WILL SANDY HOOK PROVE TO BE YET ANOTHER?

ANTIDEPRESSANTS & SCHOOL VIOLENCE: We have put together a very long list of school violence/shootings we have documented linked to antidepressant use since 1988 - 67 cases on the list because I am sick of seeing all these posts with such low figures when I know how high the incident rate really is.

Please share this short hard hitting video list of documented cases: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpFoivbZH1o&feature=youtu.be

... along with the direct link to this list where they can read more on each individual case: http://www.drugawareness.org/ssri-nightmares/school-shootings

I suggest you share this with your local law enforcement, attorneys, judges, paramedics, fire and rescue crews, government officials, news media, anyone interested in the problems with school shootings in order to educate them to the real problem with school shootings.

I would also suggest including Mark Taylor's video "Fight for Columbine" and Corey Baadsgard's video "Why I Took a Gun to School..." and my 2004 and 2006 FDA testimonies to give them more in depth information all available at our main site at www.drugawareness.org

Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,
International Coalition for Drug Awareness
www.drugawareness.org & http://ssristories.drugawareness.org
Author: "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare -
The Complete Truth of the Full Impact of Antidepressants Upon Us &
Our World" & Safe Withdrawal CD "Help! I Can't Get Off My Antidepressant!"

MARK TAYLOR'S FIGHT FOR COLUMBINE - TO BRING OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT ANTIDEPRESSANT-INDUCED VIOLENCE

MARK ALLEN TAYLOR

This is the beginning of material we promised that we have begun to gather for you to help better educate about the dangers of these deadly antidepressant drugs:

On April 20, 1999 Eric Harris opened fire outside Columbine High School. Standing with his friends having a discussion on the Bible was Mark Allen Taylor. The first bullets hit Mark with anywhere from 7 – 13 entering his body. The damage was so great that doctors could not determine the number of bullets that entered. The following video documents Mark’s life from that moment on.

Our webmaster for the International Coalition for Drug Awareness at www.drugawareness.org, Todd Bentley, who is Mark’s best friend and my incredible son-in-law and best father to my grandchildren anyone could ask for, put this video together and entered it in an Infowars contest (thus the reference to Infowars. I encourage you to share this everywhere!

I am extremely concerned about Mark’s health due to the damaging effects of the drugs he has been forced to take. CLICK THIS LINK TO CONTINUE READING AND VIEW THE VIDEO: http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/mark-taylors-fight4columbine

Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,
International Coalition for Drug Awareness
www.drugawareness.org & http://ssristories.drugawareness.org
Author: "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare -
The Complete Truth of the Full Impact of Antidepressants Upon Us &
Our World" & Safe Withdrawal CD "Help! I Can't Get Off My Antidepressant!"

DEATHS FROM SEROTONERGIC DIET PILL

DRUG MAKER ON TRIAL IN FRANCE FOR DEATHS FROM SEROTONERGIC DIET PILL

By Ann Blake-Tracy on May 22, 2013

MEDIATOR (DIET PILL RELATED TO FEN-PHEN & REDUX)

ANOTHER SEROTONERGIC DRUG MAKER ON TRIAL IN FRANCE FOR DEATHS CAUSED BY THEIR DRUG USED FOR WEIGHT LOSS:

Mediator, a serotonergic drug like Fen-Phen and Redux and Meridia suspected of killing up to 2000 in France!

For those of you have not yet read my book, PROZAC: PANACEA OR PANDORA? – OUR SEROTONIN NIGHTMARE, you are likely not yet aware that Fen-Phen and Redux were serotonergic meds with a double whammy on the elevating of serotonin levels. These drugs were pulled from the market due to BRAIN DAMAGE, not heart damage as most thought. Due to this lack of knowledge by the general public the manufacturer was sued for only the heart damage and lung damage, rather the brain damage which also resulted in murder/suicides, suicides, etc. This is one reason why it is so important to fully understand the effects of these serotonergic drugs. Never just scratch the surface and think you know enough.

When these serotonergic diet drugs were pulled from the market in 1997 I appeared as a guest expert on the Geraldo Show to discuss the similarities of the drugs to SSRI antidepressants...CLICK LINK BELOW TO CONTINUE READING

http://www.drugawareness.org/recentcasesblog/drug-maker-on-trial-in-france-for-deaths-from-serotonergic-diet-pill

Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,
International Coalition for Drug Awareness
www.drugawareness.org & http://ssristories.drugawareness.org
Author: “Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? – Our Serotonin Nightmare – The Complete Truth of the Full Impact of Antidepressants Upon Us & Our World” & Withdrawal CD “Help! I Can’t Get Off My Antidepressant!”

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American Minute with Bill Federer MAY 20 - Clara Barton & the American Red Cross

American Minute with Bill Federer MAY 20 - Clara Barton & the American Red Cross Invite Bill Federer for a speaking engagement Click here!      The American Red Cross was organized MAY 21, 1881, by a schoolteacher named Clara Barton. The first woman to be a clerk at the U.S. Patent Office, Clara Barton moved to Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War. She distributed relief supplies to wounded soldiers and, at the request of President Lincoln, aided for nearly four years in searching for missing soldiers. After attempting to carry a wounded soldier off the battlefield of Antietam, September 17, 1862, Clara Barton wrote: "A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?" Clara Barton was present at some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War: Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. The National Park Service recorded that Clara Barton first visited Chatham or "Lacy House" in early August 1862, bringing food and hospital supplies to help "her boys." She returned during the Fredericksburg Campaign, December 1862. Clara Barton helped care for the wounded soldiers of both sides that were brought into the house. A physician requested her help in the city, which required her to cross a pontoon bridge over the river. As she stepped off, an officer offered her his hand. Suddenly a shell passed under their arms, tearing away part of her skirt and his coattail. He later died. Clara Barton set up a soup kitchen at the Lacy House, which became a makeshift hospital for the Union 2nd Corps. With doctors too busy to keep medical records, Clara wrote in her diary the names of the men who died and where they were buried. Her diary is at the Clara Barton National Historic Site in Maryland. On December 13, 1862, the day of the heaviest fighting, Clara was in the doorway of the Lacy House when an exploding shell severed a soldier's artery. She applied the tourniquet that saved his life. Crossing the river again, a Union provost marshall thought she was a civilian and volunteered to escort her to safety, but looking at the thousands of Union soldiers, she politely declined the offer saying she was the best protected woman in the world. When a shell struck the door of the room she was in, 'she did not flinch, but continued her duties' assisting the doctors. The next two weeks at Chatham, Clara saw 'hundreds of the worst wounded men I have ever seen,' occupying every room of the house. They 'covered every foot of the floors and porticos' and stair landings. A man 'thought himself rich' if he laid under a table where he would not be stepped on. Clara saw five men stuffed onto four shelves of a cupboard. Others shivered in the cold muddy yard on blankets, waiting for someone inside to die so they could be brought in. Clara set up a soup kitchen in a tent in the yard to help them. The Library of Congress has the letter Clara Barton wrote to her cousin from the Head Quarters of the 2nd Division, 9th Army Corps-Army of the Potomac Camp near Falmouth, Virginia, December 12th, 1862, 2 o'clock a.m.: "My dear Cousin Vira: Five minutes time with you; and God only knows what those five minutes might be worth to the many-doomed thousands sleeping around me. It is the night before a battle. The enemy, Fredericksburg, and its mighty entrenchments lie before us, the river between - at tomorrow's dawn our troops will assay to cross, and the guns of the enemy will sweep those frail bridges at every breath. The moon is shining through the soft haze with a brightness almost prophetic. For the last half hour I have stood alone in the awful stillness of its glimmering light gazing upon the strange sad scene around me striving to say, 'Thy will Oh God be done.' The camp fires blaze with unwanted brightness, the sentry's tread is still but quick - the acres of little shelter tents are dark and still as death, no wonder for us as I gazed sorrowfully upon them. I thought I could almost hear the slow flap of the grim messenger's wings, as one by one he sought and selected his victims for the morning sacrifice. Sleep weary one, sleep and rest for tomorrow's toil. Oh! Sleep and visit in dreams once more the loved ones nestling at home..." Get the book, Miracles in American History-32 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer Clara Barton continued: "They may yet live to dream of you, cold lifeless and bloody, but this dream, soldier, is thy last, paint it brightly, dream it well. Oh northern mothers, wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you. God pity and strengthen you every one. Mine are not the only waking hours, the light yet burns brightly in our kind hearted General's tent where he pens what may be a last farewell to his wife and children and thinks sadly of his fated men. Already the roll of the moving artillery is sounded in my ears. The battle draws near and I must catch one hour's sleep for tomorrow's labor. Good night, dear cousin, and Heaven grant you strength for your more peaceful and less terrible, but not less weary days than mine. Yours in love, Clara." Clara Barton wrote of the soldiers: "What could I do but go with them, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins." Clara Barton then went to Europe during the Franco-German War, where she worked with Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross. Henri Dunant was the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Henri Dunant founded the Geneva chapter of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) and proposed Jews repopulate Palestine, being one of the few non-Jews to attend the First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897. Theodore Herzl first used the term, "Christian Zionist" in reference to Henri Dunant. Inspired by Henri Dunant's International Red Cross, Clara Barton established the American Red Cross Society, MAY 21, 1881, serving as its head until 1904. Clara Barton stated: "An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. I am well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I cannot be a soldier, I'll help soldiers." Clara Barton helped in hospitals in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. She wrote: "In time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war." President William McKinley stated regarding Clara Barton in his Second Annual Message, December 5, 1898: "It is a pleasure for me to mention in terms of cordial appreciation the timely and useful work of the American National Red Cross, both in relief measures preparatory to the campaigns, in sanitary assistance at several of the camps of assemblage, and later, under the able and experienced leadership of the president of the society, Miss Clara Barton, on the fields of battle and in the hospitals at the front in Cuba. Working in conjunction with the governmental authorities and under their sanction and approval, and with the enthusiastic cooperation of many patriotic women and societies in the various States, the Red Cross has fully maintained its already high reputation for intense earnestness and ability to exercise the noble purposes of its international organization, thus justifying the confidence and support which it has received at the hands of the American people." President McKinley continued: "To the members and officers of this society and all who aided them in their philanthropic work the sincere and lasting gratitude of the soldiers and the public is due and is freely accorded. In tracing these events we are constantly reminded of our obligations to the Divine Master for His watchful care over us and His safe guidance, for which the nation makes reverent acknowledgment and offers humble prayer for the continuance of His favor." President Woodrow Wilson mentioned the Red Cross in his Proclamation of a Contribution Day for the aid of stricken Jewish people, January 11, 1916: "Whereas in the various countries now engaged in war there are nine millions of Jews, the great majority of whom are destitute of food, shelter, and clothing; and...have been driven from their homes without warning, deprived of an opportunity to make provision for their most elementary wants, causing starvation, disease and untold suffering; and Whereas the people of the United States of America have learned with sorrow of this terrible plight of millions of human beings and have most generously responded to the cry for help... Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States...do appoint and proclaim January 27, 1916, as a day upon which the people of the United States may make such contributions as they feel disposed for the aid of the stricken Jewish people. Contributions may be addressed to the American Red Cross, Washington, D.C., which will care for their proper distribution." Opening the Second Red Cross Drive in New York City, President Woodrow Wilson stated, May 18, 1918: "Being members of the American Red Cross...a great fraternity and fellowship which extends all over the world...this cross which these ladies bore here today is an emblem of Christianity itself... When you think of this, you realize how the people of the United States are being drawn together into a great intimate family whose heart is being used for the service of the soldiers not only, but for the long night of suffering and terror, in order that they and men everywhere may see the dawn of a day of righteousness and justice and peace." On December 8, 1918, in an appeal of support for the American Red Cross just a month after the fighting in World War I had ceased, President Woodrow Wilson stated: "One year ago, twenty-two million Americans, by enrolling as members of the Red Cross at Christmas time, sent to the men who were fighting our battles overseas a stimulating message of cheer and good-will... Now, by God's grace, the Red Cross Christmas message of 1918 is to be a message of peace as well as a message of good-will." On May 1, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt greeted the chairman of the American National Red Cross, Norman H. Davis, in Washington, D.C.: "The great International Red Cross organization, founded 76 years ago to bring mercy to the battlefield... I am confident that whatever may be the problems which intensification of warfare may bring, the American people will respond to any appeal for funds when the Red Cross deems it necessary to call upon them for additional aid. By such response we can aid in sustaining the spirit and morale of those in distress abroad until the happy day we all pray for, when hostilities shall cease." The story of Clara Barton & American Red Cross is in Miracles in American History Read PAST American Minutes in the Achives Watch Faith in History Help tornado victims in Moore, Oklahoma Click Here News from AmericanMinute.com Schedule interview or speaking - contact Bill Federer 314-540-1172 wjfederer@gmail.com Tell a friend to sign up for the American Minute!    Get the book, Miracles in American History-32 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer Join Bill on trip of a lifetime to Israel - NEW DATES Don't know what to do with your life? 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