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Date Sent: 2015-10-12
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, October 12, 2015 |
Greek Cash Ban: 'Permanent' Stricter "Capital Controls" On 3 Million Pensioners
Obama Won't Back Down After Chinese Threat, Sends U.S. Warships To Contested Islands ... -- How Much Longer Can Our Unaffordable Housing Prices Last? -- Can Star Trek's world with no money work? -- It's Glencore Versus Goldman in Metals as Miners Cut Production -- CBS' 60 Minutes Interviews America's Liar-in-Chief -- Over 1,300 Palestinians Shot in Last 11 Days -- A Measles Death, Vaccines, and the Media's Failure to Inform -- Syrian army, Russian jets drive back rebels in fiercest clashes for days: monitor -- Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67 Billion -- Iran finds Jason Rezaian guilty. Washington Post calls it 'injustice' (VIDEO) -- U.S. stocks: The punches keep coming -- Bond Market Casualties Leading Biggest S&P 500 Revival Since '11 -- Daily Israeli War Crimes in Palestine -- Fines Over Water Use Rankle Californians -- The Nuclear Waste Startup Aiming to Rebrand Atomic Energy -- Sheriff Clarke: If Obama Wants to Disarm People, 'He Should Start with His Security Staff' -- Obama: 'Yes' I would win if I ran for president again -- Too Big to Fail: El Niño Event Is Practically Guaranteed This Year -- War on Jeremy Corbyn Rages -- An Enemy of the Empire -- Political Fools and Their Money -- Cyber insurance premiums rocket after high-profile attacks -- Hundreds of Southwest flights delayed by online booking problems -- Islamic State is prime suspect in Turkey bombing, as protests erupt -- What Scandal? Fantasy Sports Sites Just Had Their Biggest Weekend Ever -- It may get harder for rich Chinese to buy green cards -- Putin's Righteous Syrian Mission -- China asks world to impose 'code of conduct' on Internet -- Trump: I sometimes carry a gun --
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News Link • World News
Greek Cash Ban: 'Permanent' Stricter "Capital Controls" On 3 Million Pensioners
10-12-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
In a stunning move towards the elites' endgame of 'banning cash', Greek authorities unveiled stricter capital controls for civil servants and pensioners this weekend. By drastically limiting cash withdrawals and forcing the more 'controllable' compul
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Won't Back Down After Chinese Threat, Sends U.S. Warships To Contested Islands ...
10-12-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
On Friday, we reported the latest provocation in what has truly become a very dangerous, if largely pointless, staring contest between Beijing and Washington over China's reclamation of land in The South China Sea.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Housing
How Much Longer Can Our Unaffordable Housing Prices Last?
10-12-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
Markets discover price via supply and demand: Big demand + limited supply = rising prices. Abundant supply + sagging demand = declining prices.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - International
It's Glencore Versus Goldman in Metals as Miners Cut Production
10-12-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com
For years, a copper replica of Wall Street's Charging Bull sculpture stood in the lobby at the London offices of Red Kite Group, one of the biggest metals hedge funds. With prices near six-year lows, a new statue faces it, an even bigger roaring be
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
A Measles Death, Vaccines, and the Media's Failure to Inform
10-12-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
Last week, it was widely reported in the mainstream media that the autopsy of a woman who died of pneumonia earlier this year in the state of Washington found that she had been infected with measles, making this the first confirmed case of measles-re
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Syria
Syrian army, Russian jets drive back rebels in fiercest clashes for days: monitor
10-12-2015
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http://www.reuters.com
Syrian army and allied forces supported by Russian warplanes made further advances as they pressed an offensive against insurgents on Monday, in the fiercest clashes for nearly a week, a monitor said.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67 Billion
10-12-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com
Dell Inc. agreed to buy EMC Corp. for about $67 billion in the largest technology acquisition ever, creating a corporate-computing giant that will use a wider product lineup to woo customers as demand slows and competition stiffens.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Free Speech
Iran finds Jason Rezaian guilty. Washington Post calls it 'injustice' (VIDEO)
10-12-2015
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CNN Money
Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian has been convicted by a Revolutionary Court in Iran, according to state-run media.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bond Market Casualties Leading Biggest S&P 500 Revival Since '11
10-12-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com
Two things are true about the companies that just lifted U.S. stocks to the biggest rally in four years: their fortunes are most tied to the economy, and they're the least loved by credit investors. Both are reasons for optimism.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Environment
Fines Over Water Use Rankle Californians
10-12-2015
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http://www.wsj.com
Cities clamp down on residents not conserving enough as drought continues, prompting complaints
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Energy
The Nuclear Waste Startup Aiming to Rebrand Atomic Energy
10-12-2015
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http://www.wired.com
Quick survey: How do you feel about nuclear energy? If you're like 84 percent of America, you believe that nuclear power should be "very important in the future."
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sheriff Clarke: If Obama Wants to Disarm People, 'He Should Start with His Security Staff'
10-12-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
On the Saturday broadcast of "Justice with Judge Jeanine," host Judge Jeanine Pirro asked Milwaukee County, WI Sheriff David Clarke if he was surprised that President Obama announced that he wanted to politicize the Oregon shooting.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: 'Yes' I would win if I ran for president again
10-12-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
President Barack Obama said Sunday he believes he would win if he ran for president again and called his last year of the presidency "bittersweet."
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Too Big to Fail: El Niño Event Is Practically Guaranteed This Year
10-12-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
It seems like every couple of years, the folks at NASA or NOAA will issue a press release saying something along the lines of "this year we'll have the big one" before adding that El Niño may be gearing up to dump devastating rains all over th
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Government
An Enemy of the Empire
10-12-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
Following are quotes from an interview. I don't know how concerned I should be that I hold many of these same views. I will save the identity of the interviewee for last:
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Political Fools and Their Money
10-12-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/10/gary-north/pol
If your life depended on writing a page on the career of Lawrence Lessig, and you had 30 minutes to write the essay, and you were in a room without access to the Internet, would I be wise to sell you a life insurance policy?
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Cyber insurance premiums rocket after high-profile attacks
10-12-2015
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http://www.reuters.com
A rash of hacking attacks on U.S. companies over the past two years has prompted insurers to massively increase cyber premiums for some companies, leaving firms that are perceived to be a high risk scrambling for cover.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Hundreds of Southwest flights delayed by online booking problems
10-12-2015
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http://www.reuters.com
Southwest Airlines Co said hundreds of its flights were delayed because of problems on its website, phone lines and airports on Sunday.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • TERRORISM
Islamic State is prime suspect in Turkey bombing, as protests erupt
10-12-2015
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http://www.reuters.com
Turkey's government said on Monday Islamic State was the prime suspect in suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people in Ankara, but opponents vented anger at President Tayyip Erdogan at funerals, universities and courthouses.
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
What Scandal? Fantasy Sports Sites Just Had Their Biggest Weekend Ever
10-12-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com
A week after allegations of cheating, FanDuel and DraftKings are bringing in more entry fees and earning higher profits on their tournaments.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Immigration
It may get harder for rich Chinese to buy green cards
10-12-2015
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CNN Money
The U.S. government runs a program that grants permanent residency to foreigners who sink at least $500,000 into a job-creating investment. The controversial immigrant investor program, known as EB-5, has been hugely popular with rich Chinese, but la
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • United Nations
China asks world to impose 'code of conduct' on Internet
10-11-2015
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washingtonexaminer.com
A Chinese official on Friday called on the United Nations to impose an international code of conduct on the Internet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump: I sometimes carry a gun
10-11-2015
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yahoo.com
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump says he sometimes carries a gun to protect himself, after a spate of shootings at colleges ramped up debate about firearms in the United States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
'Nanocable' could be big boon for energy storage
10-11-2015
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http://news.rice.edu, Jade Boyd
Rice University's coaxial nanocable outperforms previous microcapacitors
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Social Security
Lower gas prices means no Social Security increase next year
10-11-2015
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apnews.myway.com
For just the third time in 40 years, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect no increase in benefits next year, unwelcome news for more than one-fifth of the nation's population.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
The Mystery of ISIS' Toyota Army Solved
10-11-2015
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ronpaulinstitute.org
The US Treasury has recently opened an inquiry about the so-called "Islamic State's" (ISIS/ISIL) use of large numbers of brand-new Toyota trucks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
Simple Inventions Changing the Lives of Billions
10-11-2015
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Wired
The world is facing some huge problems. There 's a lot of talk about how to solve them.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
Former Intelligence Analyst:
10-11-2015
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dailycaller.com
Political Correctness Is A Manipulative Tool For Centralizing Power
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Self-Defense
Would-be Waffle House robber dies after having been shot by customer
10-11-2015
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http://www.postandcourier.com, Deanna Pan
The Waffle House crew was busily going about its typical early-morning ritual -- smothering and scrambling breakfast, clanking through the dirty dishes -- when a robber jolted them out of their routine.
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