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Date Sent: 2015-10-30
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, October 30, 2015 |
First They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Get Paid in Bank Sale
Almost half of 'Obamacare' co-ops are closing by the end of the year -- The US just confronted China over its claims to the South China Sea -- The US Spends $35 Billion In Global Economic Aid (But Where Does All This Money Really Go?) -- The Ghost Cities Finally Died: For China's Steel Industry -- The Demobilization Of The American People & The Spectacle Of Election 2016 -- U.S., Russia, Turkey, and Saudi meet on Syria war -- NSA-Friendly CISA Bill Easily Passes U.S. Senate; Snowden Attacks -- More than 800,000 refugees RETURNING to Syria as Putin OBLITERATES Islamic State -- Anti-Israel Activism Criminalized in the Land of Charlie Hebdo and "Free Speech" -- How Payment Giants Are Embracing Bitcoin and Blockchain Tech -- Researchers Accidentally Discover That Orange Peels Can Suck Mercury From Polluted Water -- New App Helps Families Find Pets New Homes, Bypasses Animal Shelters -- Newly-Developed Concrete Absorbs CO2, Insulates, And Is Also A Vertical Garden -- 'Cheap Money' Means Expensive Bitcoins (Op-Ed) -- JP Morgan Partners with Walmart & Best Buy to Crush Apple Pay -- U.S. Growth Cools in Third Quarter -- Bitcoin Awareness Campaign Launches Across Major U.S. Cities -- Nasdaq's Blockchain-Powered Platform Linq Attracts First 6 Clients -- Senators demand answers about IRS use of secret cellphone tracking systems -- World's First DAPI: Decentralized Application Programming Interface -- Former Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles Re-arrested for Embezzlement -- Price of Bitcoin hits $300 for the first time since July -- 10-29-15 -- Dr. Phranq Tamburri = Trump Report - Keith Cyrnek -- (VIDEO & MP3s LOADED) -- CNBC Was the Biggest Loser of Its Own Debate -- Altwork Station puts you in a position to work -- Tiny 'ThumbSats' Aim to Bring Space to All -- In Latest Escalation, Australia May Join US, Send Warships To China Islands -- SPLC Attacks First Amendment, Says Alternative Media is "Destructive to Democracy" -- US Ground Troops in Syria "Illegal, Big Mistake", Russia Warns Obama There Will Be .. --
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News Link • Economy - International
First They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Get Paid in Bank Sale
10-29-2015
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True Activist
First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Almost half of 'Obamacare' co-ops are closing by the end of the year
10-29-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Nearly half of the 23 non-profit insurance plans created under Obamacare in 2011 at a cost of $2.4 billion have announced they will close by the end of the year.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
The US just confronted China over its claims to the South China Sea
10-29-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The U.S. and Chinese navies held high-level talks on Thursday after a U.S. warship challenged China's territorial assertions in the South China Sea, and a U.S. official said they agreed to maintain dialogue and follow protocols to avoid clashes.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Aid
The US Spends $35 Billion In Global Economic Aid (But Where Does All This Money Really Go?)
10-29-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Clearly, not all aid is distributed equally. The question is: Who received the largest slice of the pie from the U.S.? From the map above, the answer is clear: Israel. Of the $35 billion of total economic aid distributed, almost a quarter of funds we
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
The Ghost Cities Finally Died: For China's Steel Industry
10-29-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
It's almost difficult to believe, but just 8 years ago, in 2007 and right before the world was swept in the worst financial crisis in history, China had only $7.4 trillion in debt, or 158% in consolidated debt/GDP. Since then this debt has risen to o
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting and Elections
The Demobilization Of The American People & The Spectacle Of Election 2016
10-29-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com
You may not know it, but you're living in a futuristic science fiction novel.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S., Russia, Turkey, and Saudi meet on Syria war
10-29-2015
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http://aranews.net
The foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia met Thursday in Vienna to work through their differences on the eve of talks on the war in Syria.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA-Friendly CISA Bill Easily Passes U.S. Senate; Snowden Attacks
10-29-2015
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Cointelegraph
The largest tech companies in the world, from Google and Apple, to Reddit and Twitter, issued statements condemning the cyber-security bill called CISA, but to no avail.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Syria
More than 800,000 refugees RETURNING to Syria as Putin OBLITERATES Islamic State
10-29-2015
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http://www.express.co.uk
But Russia's bid to wipe out ISIS has been so successful that almost a million Syrians are elected to return to their homeland, Russian politician Dmitry Sablin claimed.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Anti-Israel Activism Criminalized in the Land of Charlie Hebdo and "Free Speech"
10-29-2015
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https://theintercept.com - Glenn Greenwald
The post-Charlie Hebdo "free speech" march in Paris was a fraud for multiple reasons, as I wrote at the time. It was led by dozens of world leaders, many of whom imprison or even kill people for expressing prohibited views.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
How Payment Giants Are Embracing Bitcoin and Blockchain Tech
10-29-2015
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Coindesk
MasterCard's participation in Digital Currency Group's undisclosed funding round sent ripples of excitement across the crypto-sphere earlier this week.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Researchers Accidentally Discover That Orange Peels Can Suck Mercury From Polluted Water
10-29-2015
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True Activist
Impressively, the substance changes color when it comes into contact with and absorbs mercury, which means it could also be used to detect whether waterways are polluted.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Animals and Pets
New App Helps Families Find Pets New Homes, Bypasses Animal Shelters
10-29-2015
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True Activist
PawsLikeMe uses an algorithm to match adopters with prospective furrever four-legged friends.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
'Cheap Money' Means Expensive Bitcoins (Op-Ed)
10-29-2015
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Cointelegraph
However, not everyone understands what a country's debt means. Debt to whom? And what is the "debt ceiling" that was raised today?...One thing is clear: printing more money whenever the supply runs out isn't a bad solution.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
JP Morgan Partners with Walmart & Best Buy to Crush Apple Pay
10-29-2015
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Cointelegraph
American multinational banking and financial services holding company JP Morgan Chase & Co. has announced the launch of its own version of a mobile payment system, Chase Pay, which will allow users to pay major retailers and merchants in the U.S, inc
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Growth Cools in Third Quarter
10-29-2015
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http://www.wsj.com
The latest inventory swing could be a one-time correction, and some economists expect a snapback in the final three months of the year. But others say it shows businesses are concerned about demand,
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Awareness Campaign Launches Across Major U.S. Cities
10-29-2015
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Cointelegraph
Genesis Mining is doing just that by starting a far reaching, and not cheap, Nationwide Bitcoin Awareness Campaign called #ExploreBitcoin. This project started on Monday in the United States, will continue for several months, and may spread to other
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Nasdaq's Blockchain-Powered Platform Linq Attracts First 6 Clients
10-29-2015
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Cointelegraph
Nasdaq announced the first six inaugural clients of its new blockchain-enabled platform "Nasdaq Linq." The first participants will include Chain.com, ChangeTip, PeerNova, Synack, Tango, and Vera.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Senators demand answers about IRS use of secret cellphone tracking systems
10-29-2015
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http://www.washingtontimes.com
Two top senators are probing use by the Internal Revenue Service of secret cellphone tracking systems that are more often utilized by federal or local law enforcement agencies.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
World's First DAPI: Decentralized Application Programming Interface
10-29-2015
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Cointelegraph
Lead Dash developer Evan Duffield recently gave a presentation for Bitcoin Wednesday. After an introduction to Dash's core protocol functions, Duffield went on to give a pre-announcement of a series of upgrades called "Evolution."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Former Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles Re-arrested for Embezzlement
10-29-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
Mainstream Media Misreports 'Bitcoin CEO Arrested'
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Price of Bitcoin hits $300 for the first time since July
10-29-2015
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Fortune.Com
There was some debate over whether the price bump was actually a direct result of the Greece situation or simply coincided with it.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CNBC Was the Biggest Loser of Its Own Debate
10-29-2015
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Slate.Com
How bad was it? Straight-ahead moderators John Harwood and Becky Quick seemed to be broadcasting from Planet Face the Nation, lobbing serious policy questions. Meanwhile, the more flamboyant Cramer and Santelli practically competed for overacting hon
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Altwork Station puts you in a position to work
10-29-2015
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gizmag.com
It's widely accepted that sitting at a desk all day is bad for our health and a lot of people address this by buying one of the many standing desks that have hit the market in recent years.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
In Latest Escalation, Australia May Join US, Send Warships To China Islands
10-29-2015
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Zero Hedge
Earlier this week, the USS Lassen managed to sail by China's man-made islands in the Spratlys without getting shot at or surrounded.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Free Speech
SPLC Attacks First Amendment, Says Alternative Media is "Destructive to Democracy"
10-29-2015
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Prison Planet.com
Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law Center warn in an article posted this week that news and information contrary to that disseminated by the establishment "hides deep, dark and destructive forces" endangering democracy.
Potok and the SPLC a
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News Link • Syria
US Ground Troops in Syria "Illegal, Big Mistake", Russia Warns Obama There Will Be ..
10-+29-2015
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thedailysheeple.com
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in "direct action on the ground" in Iraq and Syria.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Food
Pepsi Admits That Its Aquafina Bottled Water Is Just Tap Water, Coca-Cola's Dasani Is Next
10-29-2015
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True Activist
On Friday, the Pepsi corporation admitted that its Aquafina bottled water is not purified water or spring water, but simply plain old tap water. The company will now be forced to change the labeling of the brand to reflect that it is just tap water.
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