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Date Sent: 2016-01-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, January 17, 2016 |
America's most iconic retailers are shutting down stores and laying off thousands...
RUSSIA, INDIA TEAM FOR JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE -- What's really standing in the way of drone delivery? -- The Deflation Monster Has Arrived -- Here's What Tor's Data Looks Like as It Flows Around the World -- "After Me, The Jihad," Gaddafi Tried To Warn The West, But Nobody Listened -- Obama's appointee to head the FDA is a Big Pharma mega-lobbyist -- Tesla gigafactory one year later: Economic boost but lagging transparency -- Welcome To The New Normal: The Dow Crashes Another 390 Points... -- US, Iran Step Back From the Brink -- Iran Unleashes Oil Flood, Will Quintuple Crude Revenue In 2016 -- Single-Serving Stalinism: The Continuing Persecution of Matthew Townsend -- Myth-Busters: A More Democratic Fed?...No!...End The Fed! -- Taiwan elects first female President in epic electoral bitch slap to communist China -- 42% Of Americans Ditch Two-Party System, Say Government Is Biggest Problem (Poll) -- PENTAGON ORDERS UP $900 MILLION FOR BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WAR -- Can saturated fat be healthy? Grass-fed butter increasingly seen as a nourishing, healthy food -- Here's a look at the gorgeous, $1.8 billion stadium the Rams want to build in Inglewood... -- How to find Netflix's secret categories -- Rand Paul's decision to skip the undercard debate turned out to be a brilliant move -- Nearly Two Years After Its Launch, Is BMW i8 Still The Car Of The Future? - Video -- Brandon Smith: The Advantages of Barter and Localism -- Do You Live in a State that is Likely to Legalize Marijuana by 2017? -- Clinton calls for increased Planned Parenthood funding -- False Profits -- The Truth Behind The 'Clash Of The Two Pauls' -- Obama Administration Halts New Coal Mining Leases On Public Land -- Mobile Lottery Ticket App JackPocket Now Accepts Bitcoin -- Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons: Netanyahu -- After vote, China tells Taiwan to abandon independence 'hallucination' --
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
America's most iconic retailers are shutting down stores and laying off thousands...
01-17-2016
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
America's most iconic retailers are shutting down stores and laying off thousands -- and this could be just the beginning
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News Link • Russia
RUSSIA, INDIA TEAM FOR JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE
01-17-2016
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Next News Network - Gary Franchi
TASS reports Russia and India will hold joint exercises of airborne troops in the coming months, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry told TASS on Tuesday.
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News Link • Drones
What's really standing in the way of drone delivery?
01-17-2016
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http://www.theverge.com, By Ben Popper
Amazon, Google, and the FAA all have different opinions on what needs to happen next
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Deflation Monster Has Arrived
01-17-2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
As we've been warning for quite a while (too long for my taste): the world's grand experiment with debt has come to an end. And it's now unraveling.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Here's What Tor's Data Looks Like as It Flows Around the World
01-17-2016
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Wired
For a tool that's meant to serve as a cloak of online anonymity, Tor is surprisingly transparent.
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News Link • Libya
"After Me, The Jihad," Gaddafi Tried To Warn The West, But Nobody Listened
01-17-2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Before the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, Louis XV predicted, "After me, the Deluge." Before being overthrown, Libya's secular dictator tried to warn the West of a new Reign of Terror, essentially foretelling, "After me, the Jihad
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's appointee to head the FDA is a Big Pharma mega-lobbyist
01-17-2016
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Natural News
In his last months in office, President Obama continues to pursue his policy of appointing industry insiders and lobbyists to important posts within the federal government.
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News Link • Obama Administration
US, Iran Step Back From the Brink
01-17-2016
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchana
To awaken Thursday to front-page photos of U.S. sailors kneeling on the deck of their patrol boat, hands on their heads in postures of surrender, on Iran's Farsi Island, brought back old and bad memories.
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News Link • Iran
Iran Unleashes Oil Flood, Will Quintuple Crude Revenue In 2016
01-17-2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
On Saturday, Iran marked what President Hassan Rouhani called a "golden page" in the country's history when the IAEA ruled that Tehran had stuck to its commitments under last year's nuclear accord.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Single-Serving Stalinism: The Continuing Persecution of Matthew Townsend
01-17-2016
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By William Norman Gri
The State of Idaho remains perversely determined to steal five years from the life of Matthew Townsend as punishment for publishing a defiant but harmless statement on his Facebook page.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Myth-Busters: A More Democratic Fed?...No!...End The Fed!
01-17-2016
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
Ron Paul once again smashes the latest myths! -- Bernie Sanders has a fundamental misunderstanding of The Fed and sound money -- Hillary's anti-gun crusade gets more bizarre by the day -- Tom Cotton doesn't understand that Gitmo is a recruiter of ter
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News Link • China
Taiwan elects first female President in epic electoral bitch slap to communist China
01-17-2016
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Natural News
Due in part to China's attempt to bully a 16-year-old Taiwanese singer, yesterday's election in Taiwan was an epic landslide for liberty and sovereignty, ushering in a wave of D.P.P. representatives who ultimately support national sovereignty from Ch
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News Link • Politics
42% Of Americans Ditch Two-Party System, Say Government Is Biggest Problem (Poll)
01-17-2016
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True Activist
According to a recent Gallup poll, for 2015, just 29% of respondents call themselves Democrats, while 26% identify as Republicans -- but fully 42% say 'nay' to both parties and claim to be Independents.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
PENTAGON ORDERS UP $900 MILLION FOR BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WAR
01-17-2016
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Next News Network - Gary Franchi
The US Army has awarded 17 companies, including major corporations, $900 million in contracts for logistics and service support for biological and chemical war projects, the Department of Defense announced.
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News Link • Food
Can saturated fat be healthy? Grass-fed butter increasingly seen as a nourishing, healthy food
01-17-2016
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Natural News
A great deal of information has been surfacing showing that this kind of butter can produce positive biological results thanks to its many nutrients.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rand Paul's decision to skip the undercard debate turned out to be a brilliant move
01-17-2016
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Maxwell Tani
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) may not have been too happy about failing to qualify for the Thursday's Republican presidential debate.
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News Link • Transportation
Nearly Two Years After Its Launch, Is BMW i8 Still The Car Of The Future? - Video
01-17-2016
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http://insideevs.com, by Mark Kane
BMW i8 sure is one of the automobiles that could be called the car of the future.
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Brandon Smith: The Advantages of Barter and Localism
01-17-2016
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http://www.thedailybell.com, Anthony Wile
Brandon Smith is founder of the Alternative Market Project (www.alt-market.com) as well as the head writer and co-founder of Neithercorp Press.
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News Link • Drug War
Do You Live in a State that is Likely to Legalize Marijuana by 2017?
01-17-2016
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http://naturalsociety.com, BY CHRISTINA SARICH
Here is what a 270-page report predicts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
False Profits
01-17-2016
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lewrockwell.com, By Bionic Mosquito
Matthew 7: 15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Truth Behind The 'Clash Of The Two Pauls'
01-17-2016
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youtube.com, RonPaulLibertyReport
The economic calamity anticipated by free market advocates is now at hand.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Mobile Lottery Ticket App JackPocket Now Accepts Bitcoin
01-17-2016
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https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com, Samburaj Das
Lottery ticket app Jackpocket has announced a new payment method for users to purchase Powerball tickets with their smartphones, with bitcoin.
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News Link • Israel
Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons: Netanyahu
01-17-2016
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http://news.yahoo.com, AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Sunday that Israel would not allow it to obtain nuclear weapons, after sanctions were lifted under Tehran's historic nuclear deal with global powers.
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News Link • China
After vote, China tells Taiwan to abandon independence 'hallucination'
01-17-2016
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By James Pomfret, Matthew Miller and Ben Blanchard
Taiwan should abandon its "hallucinations" about pushing for independence, as any moves toward it would be a "poison", Chinese state-run media said after a landslide victory for the island's independence-leaning opposition.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
District leaders furious Walmart breaking promise to build stores in poor...
01-17-2016
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By Aaron C. Davis and Sarah Halzack
District leaders furious Walmart breaking promise to build stores in poor neighborhoods
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News Link • United Nations
UN eyes tax on football tickets to pay for humanitarian aid
01-17-2016
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http://news.yahoo.com, By André Viollaz
A UN study of new sources of financing for its multi-billion-dollar aid operations is recommending a voluntary tax on football matches or concerts as one option to raise funds.
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News Link • Military
Caught With Our Pants Down in the Gulf
01-17-2016
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Justin Raimondo
The official story of those captured US sailors makes no sense
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Live coverage: Falcon 9 counting down to launch from California
01-17-2016
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Spaceflight Now
The NASA launch team will report on station at the SpaceX launch control center at 5:27 a.m. PST (8:27 a.m. EST; 1327 GMT). NASA launch manager Tim Dunn will give concurrence for the launch to SpaceX's launch conductor after verifying the Jason 3 sat
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News Link • TERRORISM
lSlS PLOTTING LONE WOLF ATTACKS FOR US CLAIMS FORMER CIA BOSS
01-17-2016
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Next News Network - Gary Franchi
TOM BATCHELOR of the Expres reports, ISLAMIC State (ISIS) jihadis are plotting Paris-style lone wolf terror attacks on the US, the former boss of the CIA has warned.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
FBI WASN'T POSING AS MILITIA EX-FIRE CHIEF CLARIFIES
01-17-2016
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Next News Network - Gary Franchi
An allegation that undercover FBI agents were caught posing as militia members in southeast Oregon splashed around the Internet this week, but the story's purported source says he made no such claim.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Avoiding cancer and other diseases with natural regeneration methods
01-17-2016
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Natural News
Highly processed foods are known to make up at least 70 percent of the American diet. More than 20 percent of the nation's water treatment systems failed key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act and those that passed, continue to pump impurities
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
SICK society: ZipDrug service now offers instant delivery of Big Pharma's toxic prescription dru
01-17-2016
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Natural News
Just like a vending machine that spits out a junk-food of choice, Big Pharma can be in your hands with utmost immediacy. The gotta-have-it-now mentality is the latest brainchild of a service called ZipDrug which does exactly as its name implies: It p
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News Link • Military
Tony Blair: Britain must join EU army, fend off 'backward-looking' Euroskeptics
01-16-2016
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Prison Planet.com
Former prime minister pushes for world government architecture
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News Link • Seriously?
Sunny Nevada Just Killed the Solar Industry with 40% Tax Hike, Derailing the Off-Grid Movement
01-16-2016
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thefreethoughtproject.com
Nevada regulators and NV Energy are conspiring to push solar energy competition out of their state.
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News Link • Surveillance
Meet Symphony, the Company That Tracks Netflix's Elusive Ratings
01-16-2016
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Wired
Using your phone's microphone to tell what you are watching... WOW!
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
New "X-Files" Will Take On 9/11 Conspiracy, World Government And NSA Spying
01-16-2016
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activistpost.com
Government corruption was always one of the main themes that played out in the classic television show X-Files, and it was typically shown in the form of UFO and alien cover-ups.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Why Is the CIA Taking Over Burns, Oregon?
01-16-2016
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thecommonsenseshow.com
The Ammon Bundy group, currently operating 30 miles outside of the Burns, Oregon, has been the victim of the most heinous and effective takeovers in the history of the media.
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