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Date Sent: 2015-10-27
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, October 27, 2015 |
Sweden to Become World's First Cashless Country
Support Your Local Police? -- Fear of the Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim by John Whitehead -- The Central Bankers' Death Wish -- Republicans Reach Deal on U.S. Debt Ceiling Extension, Spending Plan -- Inside the Secretive Circle That Rules a $14 Trillion Market -- U.S. Plans to Sell Down Strategic Oil Reserve to Raise Cash -- US Equities Give Up China Rate Cut Gains As Crude Plunges To $42 Handle -- Why Did The Market Surge In October? Here Is The U.S. Treasury's Explanation -- 10-27-15 -- Paul Rosenberg - Peter Schiff - Keith Cyrnek -- (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED) -- Furious China Summons U.S. Ambassador... -- Hundreds of UK Scholars Support Palestinian Rights -- Bitnet Willing to Adopt Alternative Block Increase Proposals, Too -- Facebook's AI Can Caption Photos for the Blind on Its Own -- Simon Black Speaks of Freedoms Lost Post-Civil War -- Australia Pops 'Pot Stocks' on News of Legalization -- Yellen Has Over 6 Million Reasons to Take Her Time Raising Rates -- US Provocation in Chinese Waters -- Turning America Into An International Doormat -- 85% Of Feminine Products Are Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Glyphosate -- New Study Finds That 2/3 Of People On Anti-Depressants Are Not Clinically Depressed -- Jon Stewart Quits Comedy, Starts Animal Sanctuary to Rescue Abused Factory Farm Animals -- Case-Shiller Home Price Appreciation 'Stable' At Around 5% YoY -- Don't Think The Status Quo Will Save You -- Furious China Summons U.S. Ambassador... -- A R3VOLution of One - You -- Man Building Own Sovereign Nation On Remote Piece Of Utah Land -- Leading Economic Indicators: Biggest Drop in 3 Years -- Barcelona Threatens To Print Parallel Currency, Madrid Seethes -- Governments Seize the Opportunity to Control Bitcoin --
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News Link • Bitcoin
Sweden to Become World's First Cashless Country
10-27-2015
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Cointelegraph
Today, five of six major banks in Sweden are already refusing to operate with cash. As a result, and considering the latest Tax Authority guidelines, Bitcoin has the potential to become a commonly used currency in Sweden.
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News Link • Police State
Support Your Local Police?
10-27-2015
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Lew Rockwell - Lauence Vance
"Law and order" conservatives: When they are right, they are so right; but when they are wrong, they are so wrong.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Fear of the Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim by John Whitehead
10-27-2015
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Lew Rockwell - John Whitehead
"Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Central Bankers' Death Wish
10-27-2015
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Lew Rockwell - David Stockman
This is getting just plain ridiculous. The robo-traders were raging to the tune of 300 Dow points Thursday after Mario Draghi confirmed that he actually is a complete monetary lunatic.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Republicans Reach Deal on U.S. Debt Ceiling Extension, Spending Plan
10-27-2015
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Bloomberg
President Barack Obama and top lawmakers from both parties reached a tentative budget agreement that would avert a U.S. debt default and lower chances of a government shutdown, lessening years of political friction over fiscal policy in Washington.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Inside the Secretive Circle That Rules a $14 Trillion Market
10-27-2015
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Bloomberg
Fifteen of the biggest players in the $14 trillion market for credit insurance are also the referees...Firms such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. wrote the rules, are the dominant buyers and sellers and, ultimately, help decide w
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Plans to Sell Down Strategic Oil Reserve to Raise Cash
10-27-2015
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Bloomberg
The U.S. plans to sell millions of barrels of crude oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve from 2018 until 2025 under a budget deal reached on Monday night by the White House and top lawmakers from both parties.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
US Equities Give Up China Rate Cut Gains As Crude Plunges To $42 Handle
10-27-2015
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Zero Hedge
It appears this morning's dismal Durable Goods data was the last straw on the camel's back of the 'bad news is goods news' meme.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Why Did The Market Surge In October? Here Is The U.S. Treasury's Explanation
10-27-2015
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Zero Hedge
We have heard many explanations for the torrid market rally since last September, ranging from the rational - short squeeze - to the generic - "bad news is good news under central planning" to the deranged - "ignore the news, the U.S. economy is actu
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Furious China Summons U.S. Ambassador...
10-27-2015
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Zero Hedge
Slams Obama Decision To "Threaten Peace" With Warship Challenge
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitnet Willing to Adopt Alternative Block Increase Proposals, Too
10-27-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin payment processor Bitnet has indicated it is willing to implement block-increase proposals other than BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) 101.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Facebook's AI Can Caption Photos for the Blind on Its Own
10-27-2015
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Wired
This means he works to hone the world's most popular social network so that it can properly serve people with disabilities, including people who are deaf, people without full use of their hands, and, yes, people who are blind, like King himself.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Simon Black Speaks of Freedoms Lost Post-Civil War
10-27-2015
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The Daily Bell
On the anniversary of the USA Patriot Act, Black points out that we should take some time to remember how freedom was actually lost in the US.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Australia Pops 'Pot Stocks' on News of Legalization
10-27-2015
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The Daily Bell
Medical cannabis fuels new sector ...There's a flurry of activity in the 'farm to pharma' sector.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Yellen Has Over 6 Million Reasons to Take Her Time Raising Rates
10-27-2015
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Bloomberg
Yellen's focus on the under-employed is steering monetary policy toward a bold experiment: The Federal Open Market Committee will use the big, blunt instrument of low interest rates to push the jobless level low enough to pull more labor-force quit
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
85% Of Feminine Products Are Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Glyphosate
10-27-2015
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True Activist
The vast majority ? 85 percent ? of tampons, cotton and sanitary products tested in a new Argentinian study contained glyphosate.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
New Study Finds That 2/3 Of People On Anti-Depressants Are Not Clinically Depressed
10-27-2015
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True Activist
According to a new study, doctors are dishing out anti-depressant drugs to pretty much anyone, and most of the patients don't even meet the official criteria for clinical depression, which is likely a fabricated disorder to begin with.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Jon Stewart Quits Comedy, Starts Animal Sanctuary to Rescue Abused Factory Farm Animals
10-27-2015
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True Activist
In an effort to be the change he wishes to see in the world, comedian John Stewart, after stepping down as host of "The Daily Show," has started a sanctuary for abused factory farm animals called Bufflehead Farm.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Case-Shiller Home Price Appreciation 'Stable' At Around 5% YoY
10-27-2015
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Zero Hedge
For the first time since April, Case Shiller Home Prices rose month-over-month (though barely at +0.11%). However, this very modestly better than expected print was all thanks to downward revisions of previous data
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surviving the Collapse
Don't Think The Status Quo Will Save You
10-27-2015
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Zero Hedge
Many hold a touchingly naive faith that the Status Quo will save them even as the current system unravels. Why is this faith naive?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Furious China Summons U.S. Ambassador...
10-27-2015
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Zero Hedge
Slams Obama Decision To "Threaten Peace" With Warship Challenge
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Man Building Own Sovereign Nation On Remote Piece Of Utah Land
10-26-2015
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lasvegas.cbslocal.com
A New York man is building his own sovereign nation called Zaqistan on a remote piece of land in Utah.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Leading Economic Indicators: Biggest Drop in 3 Years
10-26-2015
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peterschiffblog.blogspot.com
Peter Schiff highlights the drop in the Leading Economic Indicators as we may be getting closer and closer to a new economic recession.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Barcelona Threatens To Print Parallel Currency, Madrid Seethes
10-26-2015
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Zero Hedge
Over the next six months, Barcelona's left-wing city council plans to roll out a cash-less local currency that has the potential to become the largest of its kind in the world.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Governments Seize the Opportunity to Control Bitcoin
10-26-2015
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cointelegraph.com
With the recent announcement of the Blockchain Alliance "A Public-Private Forum to Help Combat Criminal Activity on the Blockchain" founded by Coin Center and the Chamber of Digital Commerce, CoinTelegraph highlights some recent events overlooked
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Valeant CEO Staunchly Defends Drugmaker's Accounting, Ethics
10-26-2015
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bloomberg.com
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. took its first major steps Monday to push back against charges of accounting and ethical irregularities, appointing a new director aimed at calming investor concerns.
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