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Date Sent: 2016-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Two Google Lunar X Prize teams are going to share a ride to the Moon next year

Two Google Lunar X Prize teams are going to share a ride to the Moon next year -- The History (And Future) of Social Engineering -- A Spy Coup in America? -- 12 Stories you missed while following the 'hack' that never was -- How We Ended Up Here: A Brief History Of "Fake News", And The Role Of FaceBook -- Confessions of an Uninsured Graduate -- 25 DIY Gifts for Men [Updated for 2014!] -- CHRISTMAS TREES FROM AROUND THE WORLD -- This Robotic Suit Wants to Make Your Grandparents Superpowered -- Wanxiang Gets Final Approval To Build Karma Revero/Atlantic Plug-In Hybrid In China -- Tomgram: Nick Turse, Washington's America-First Commandos in Africa -- Turkish Pro-Government Media Blames US, CIA For Assassination Of Russian Ambassador -- Berlin Police Says It Arrested "The Wrong Man": Truck Attacker Is "Armed, Still At La -- The Medical Kidnapping of Cassandra C: Exclusive TTAC Interview (video) -- Minimum Wage? Won't Someone Think of the Children!? -- The Prepper's Civil Unrest Checklist -- We Don't Need Fannie and Freddie; We Need Freedom -- The Third Amendment Is More than a Historical Curiosity -- American Pravda: How the CIA Invented "Conspiracy Theories" -- Iran, Russia, Turkey start bids to solve Syria crisis diplomatically: Zarif -- NSA Whistleblower Destroys Obama's Russia Narrative - -- BRITISH AND US TROOPS ALONGSIDE JIHADISTS IN ALEPPO -- Ep. 0130: CJ's 25 Favorite Antiwar Songs -- Grid of nitrogen vacancies created in diamond using femtosecond lasers and grid... -- Longer lasting superconducting qubits created -- 5 Problems With CIA Claims Of Russian Hacking -- Maryland church ordered to evict homeless or pay $12,000 fine -- Hillary Clinton Lost the November Election because She Blew Off Sanders Activists and Voters -- Amazon Go Will Kill Dreary Lines, Not "Our Jobs" -- Zagmuk Conquers All! --

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Two Google Lunar X Prize teams are going to share a ride to the Moon next year
12-20-2016 • http://www.theverge.com, by Loren Grush
The teams will use the same PSLV rocket Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The History (And Future) of Social Engineering
12-20-2016 • https://www.youtube.com, Corbett Report Extras
In this interview from 2014, James Corbett joins Walter Hendricks of The Solvinur Event to discuss social engineering. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
A Spy Coup in America?
12-20-2016 • consortiumnews.com By Robert Parry
Exclusive: As the Electoral College assembles, U.S. intelligence agencies are stepping up a campaign to delegitimize Donald Trump as a Russian stooge, raising concerns about a spy coup in America, reports Robert Parry. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • WAR: About that War
12 Stories you missed while following the 'hack' that never was
12-20-2016 • thefifthcolumnnews.com
The country has its sights firmly placed on the spectacle occurring over the hack/leak of documents that may or may not have influenced the election. It's irrelevant. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
How We Ended Up Here: A Brief History Of "Fake News", And The Role Of FaceBook
12-19-2016 • zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
With major media outlets having launched their campaign against fake news, which can be seen in in action in the screengrab below in which ABC News is disputing a news item... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Healthcare Industry
Confessions of an Uninsured Graduate
12-20-2016 • https://fee.org, Marianne March
A few days ago I donned my gown and my cap with its little gold tassel, and I graduated with highest honors from my college. Now that I am transitioning out of student life, I have many decisions to make. What will I do? Where will I work? What am I Read Full Story
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News Link • Holidays
25 DIY Gifts for Men [Updated for 2014!]
12-20-2016 • http://www.artofmanliness.com
Buying any of the items from our holiday gift guides will surely make some man's Christmas. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

Feature Article  • Just For Fun!
CHRISTMAS TREES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Scott n Grainger
   THE STORY OF THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS AT THE END, IS VERY INTERESTING. I DIDN'T KNOW.
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News Link • Darpa
This Robotic Suit Wants to Make Your Grandparents Superpowered
12-20-2016 • http://motherboard.vice.com, Samantha Cole
Would your granny shimmy feet-first into a suit made of electric muscles? "Powered clothing" company Superflex is betting she would, if it meant freedom from a cane and walker. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • China
Wanxiang Gets Final Approval To Build Karma Revero/Atlantic Plug-In Hybrid In China
12-20-2016 • http://insideevs.com, by Eric Loveday
Wanxiang Group, the auto parts supplier that purchased Fisker Automotive's asset (now called Karma Automotive) some three years ago, has finally been granted approval to build its vehicles in China. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Trump Administration
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Washington's America-First Commandos in Africa
12-20-2016 • http://www.tomdispatch.com, by Nick Turse
When Donald Trump enters the Oval Office, awaiting him will not only be his own private air assassination corps (those CIA drones that take out terror suspects globally from a White House "kill list"), but his own private and remarkably secret mi Read Full Story
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News Link • Turkey
Turkish Pro-Government Media Blames US, CIA For Assassination Of Russian Ambassador
12-20-2016 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Following yesterday's Ankara tragedy in which a 22-year-old Turkish off-duty police officers assassinated the Russian ambassador, Turkey found itself in a scapegoat vacuum, having nobody to blame: after all, following this summer's failed "coup"... Read Full Story
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News Link • Germany
Berlin Police Says It Arrested "The Wrong Man": Truck Attacker Is "Armed, Still At La
12-20-2016 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In the latest gaffe for German authorities, one which could further impact Merkel adversely if confirmed - something the Euro confirmed when it just tumbled to fresh 13 years lows...Police in the German capital questioned a suspect arrested near the Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Healthcare
The Medical Kidnapping of Cassandra C: Exclusive TTAC Interview (video)
12-20-2016 • https://thetruthaboutcancer.com, By Ty Bollinger
Imagine your 17-year-old daughter gets the diagnosis of cancer. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Minimum Wage? Won't Someone Think of the Children!?
12-20-2016 • fee.org by Chris Baecker
I was quite proud of my 12 year-old recently. She bought her own iPad with money she had saved from babysitting her younger sisters (a joint-effort with her 13 year-old sister) on the nights that I have class. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Prepping
The Prepper's Civil Unrest Checklist
12-20-2016 • http://www.theorganicprepper.ca, Daisy Luther
Civil unrest used to be something we read about online, happening in distant countries like Egypt or Brazil. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Housing
We Don't Need Fannie and Freddie; We Need Freedom
12-20-2016 • fee.org by Daniel J. Mitchell
Remember the financial crisis and market meltdown from late last decade? That wasn't a fun time, and we're still dealing with some of the fallout. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Bill of Rights
The Third Amendment Is More than a Historical Curiosity
12-20-2016 • https://fee.org, Colleen Sheehan
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that the Third Amendment is their favorite one--not even the most geeky law student I have known. Honestly, no one pays it much attention. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
American Pravda: How the CIA Invented "Conspiracy Theories"
12-20-2016 • unz.com by Ron Unz
With the sudden, bizarre rise of the "Fake News" accusations throughout the entire Corporate Media megaphone and the equally bizarre and totally unsubstantiated CIA allegations that the Russians had stolen the election for Donald Trump, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Syria
Iran, Russia, Turkey start bids to solve Syria crisis diplomatically: Zarif
12-20-2016 • presstv.ir
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran, Russia and Turkey have started the process of finding a political solution to the Syria crisis. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Whistleblowers
NSA Whistleblower Destroys Obama's Russia Narrative -
12-20-2016 • zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
"Hard Evidence Points To An Inside Leak, Not Hacking" Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Obama Administration
BRITISH AND US TROOPS ALONGSIDE JIHADISTS IN ALEPPO
12-20-2016 • http://freenations.net, By Rodney Atkinson
230 US Army instructors and 54 British troops, 8 French and two Dutch artillery specialists were trapped in Aleppo with ISIS jihadists by Syrian and Russian forces. The Americans asked the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to keep this quiet ?" for o Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Activism
Ep. 0130: CJ's 25 Favorite Antiwar Songs
12-20-2016 • http://profcj.org
Encompassing a variety of musical genres & a variety of wars, here they are, CJ's favorite 25 antiwar songs. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Inventions
Grid of nitrogen vacancies created in diamond using femtosecond lasers and grid...
12-20-2016 • http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Grid of nitrogen vacancies created in diamond using femtosecond lasers and grid can make quantum computers or magnetic sensors for imaging magnetic fields Read Full Story
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour

News Link • Inventions
Longer lasting superconducting qubits created
12-20-2016 • http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
An international team of scientists has succeeded in making further improvements to the lifetime of superconducting quantum circuits. Read Full Story
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
5 Problems With CIA Claims Of Russian Hacking
12-20-2016 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Claire Bernish
When unnamed officials with the CIA recently claimed Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election, but failed to provide any evidence, suspicions immediately circulated that the allegation constituted a fabrication -- particularly as left-leaning co Read Full Story
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News Link • Government
Maryland church ordered to evict homeless or pay $12,000 fine
12-20-2016 • https://www.yahoo.com, Brandon Ambrosino
When Rev. Katie Grover arrived on a recent morning at Patapsco United Methodist Church, one of two congregations she pastors in the Baltimore area, she was surprised to find a $12,000 citation attached to the door. Read Full Story
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Hillary Clinton Lost the November Election because She Blew Off Sanders Activists and Voters
12-20-2016 • thiscantbehappening.net by Dave Lindorff
The incredible "group-think" that has seen the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, President Obama, the Clinton campaign and most of the corporate media braying that Vladimir Putin scandalously upended American democracy ... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Employment & Jobs
Amazon Go Will Kill Dreary Lines, Not "Our Jobs"
12-20-2016 • http://www.dansanchez.me, Dan Sanchez
Self-checkout kiosks at the supermarket? Who wants to stand in a line? The very idea is so barbaric. So early-2016. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Holidays
Zagmuk Conquers All!
12-20-2016 • ncc-1776.org by L. Neil Smith
[NOTE: a slightly different version of this essay first appeared in the December 15, 2013 issue (Number 749) of L. Neil Smith's THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE] Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Turkey
Turkey nabs six over killing of Russia envoy
12-20-2016 • presstv.ir
Turkey has arrested six people in connection with the assassination earlier of Russia's ambassador to the country. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Robert Lee

News Link • Drones
HUMAN (Santa) FLYING DRONE
12-20-2016 • YouTube
Published on Dec 20, 2016 - Santa Snowboards... UPHILL Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Trump Administration
As Trump-CIA Showdown Escalates, Expect Heads to Roll
12-20-2016 • https://www.lewrockwell.com
German media is reporting that the CIA wants to prevent the president-elect and his top intel nominees Flynn and Pompeo from cracking down on the way they do business Read Full Story
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Reported by: Gina Kynast

News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Precedent Set -- Germany to Fine Facebook $500K for Every 'Fake News' Post not Deleted
12-20-2016 • http://thefreethoughtproject.com
Germany -- Germany now says if Facebook refuses to deal with "fake news" in a timely manner, it will fine the social media platform €500,000 (around $525,000) for each false or hate speech item it fails to remove within 24 hours. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Gina Kynast

News Link • General Opinion
The Radical Jesus: How Would the Baby in a Manger Fare in the American Police State?
12-20-2016 • https://www.rutherford.org
"Jesus is too much for us. The church's later treatment of the gospels is one long effort to rescue Jesus from 'extremism.'"--author Gary Wills, What Jesus Meant Read Full Story
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Reported by: Gina Kynast

News Link • Police State
"We Take Your Picture or You Go To Jail!" Cops Caught on Video in Ominous New Practice
12-20-2016 • http://thefreethoughtproject.com
Austin, TX -- Police in Austin, Texas have been caught in an unscrupulous practice that looks more like something out of Nazi Germany than the supposed land of the free. In a video uploaded to Facebook this week, Austin cops are seen humiliating an Read Full Story
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Reported by: Gina Kynast

News Link • Legislation
PornScrub: South Carolina bill bans obscene content on personal computers
12-20-2016 • https://www.rt.com
Computers purchased in South Carolina in 2017 may only offer PG-13 rated internet. A bill pre-filed by Republican State Representative William Chumley would require that personal computers and other devices block internet access to pornography and ob Read Full Story
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Reported by: Gina Kynast

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Melanotan II Gives Us What We Always Wanted: Dark Tans and Powerful Erections
12-20-2016 • http://motherboard.vice.com
If the two things you can't live without are a dark, even tan and a fast-acting, long-lasting erection, then add Melanotan II to your holiday shopping list. This synthetic peptide hormone, which was developed by a research team at the University of Read Full Story
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Reported by: Gina Kynast

Feature Article  • Prepping
How To Not Die In The Cold - Cold Weather Prepping To Survive A Car Wreck
Tarrin Lupo
   In this video I share some important tips on how to keep yourself safe and frostbite free in the event of a car wreck or becoming stranded in the snow. The beginning focuses on ideas for protecting your toes from frostbite.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Study pulled from publication after proving truth of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children
12-20-2016 • http://www.naturalnews.com
(NaturalNews) The censorship of science is nothing new. In Canada, for instance, there were serious concerns about the federal government's increasingly strict regulations that prevented scientists from sharing their findings with the public. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Gina Kynast

Feature Article  • Battery Project
The Best Battery for Off Grid and Solar Systems - Nickel Iron NiFe Edison Battery - "Tarrin it
Tarrin Lupo
   The most difficult problem with off-grid living, solar, and wind power systems is the batteries. Traditional lead batteries are cheap but low quality and die quickly in the cold. What if a battery existed that could run for 100 years, run in any kind
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