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Date Sent: 2016-05-23
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, May 23, 2016 |
America - the Most Frightened Nation on Earth
Orbital ATK proposes lunar orbit habitat -- China reveals design for planned Tiangong 3 space station -- International Space Station crew deploys CubeSats -- The FBI's Secret Biometrics Database They Don't Want You To See -- US lifts Vietnam arms embargo in move to counter China -- Short But Cogent -- Police could take over your self-driving car -- State To Allow Cops To Snatch Your Phone After Being Stopped & Search It Using A "Textalyzer' -- Brush-Fire Wars -- The Benefits of Global Warming -- Bayer's Acquisition Offer Could Literally Make Monsanto Disappear -- Chart Of The Day: Here They Go Again... -- Frank And Claire Clinton--??"The Real 'House Of Cards' Story -- Business Debt Delinquencies Are Now Higher Than When Lehman Brothers Collapsed... -- 40 Volcanoes Are Erupting Right Now As The Crust Of The Earth Becomes... -- Target Is At It Again... -- Trump Victory Odds Soar As The Hillary Clinton 'Death Cross' Strikes -- Governments Create Monopolies And Cause Worker-Exploitation, Not Free-Markets -- Can Russia Survive Washington's Attack? -- U.S. Unveils First New Nutrition Facts Label In Over 20 Years -- "Everything Is Plunging" - China Commodity Carnage Continues -- A recent republican proposed Military Budget Could Make Every Homeless... -- Improving the joint: Laser process forms stronger bond... -- Beware What You Wish For: Russia is Ready for War -- Much Ado About Restrooms -- Lockheed Martin outlines plan to send humans to Mars orbit by 2028 -- New Surveillance System From Purdue May Let Cops Use All Of The Cameras, Everywhere -- Bestselling Historian Says Promise Of AI Means Rise Of 'Useless Class' Of Humans -- Robot Cowboys Monitor And Manage Animals On Giant Australian Farms --
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News Link • United States
America - the Most Frightened Nation on Earth
05-23-2016
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org
America is exceptional alright. It is the most frightened nation on Earth, subjected to hysterical propaganda over decades warning about foreign enemies and ideologies. No wonder its supposed democratic freedom is in so appallingly bad shape, when th
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Orbital ATK proposes lunar orbit habitat
05-23-2016
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http://www.spaceflightinsider.com
Orbital ATK unveiled a proposal this week for the creation of a four-person lunar orbit habitat which could be sent to the Moon as early as 2020. The outpost would utilize a modified version of the company's Cygnus cargo ship as well as NASA's Or
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News Link • China
China reveals design for planned Tiangong 3 space station
05-23-2016
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http://www.spaceflightinsider.com
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) presented several slides of the design of its future space station, called Tiangong 3--meaning "Heavenly Palace" in Chinese. The station is expected to be built between 2018 and 2022.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • China
International Space Station crew deploys CubeSats
05-23-2016
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http://www.spaceflightinsider.com
Another round of CubeSats, including eight Planet Lab Dove Satellites, were deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) by the Expedition 47 crew. A total of 17 tiny spacecraft were deployed from NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) at the end
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • FBI
The FBI's Secret Biometrics Database They Don't Want You To See
05-23-2016
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https://www.technocracy.news
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to prevent information about its creepy biometric database, which contains fingerprint, face, iris, and voice scans of millions of Americans, from getting out to the public.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • United States
US lifts Vietnam arms embargo in move to counter China
05-23-2016
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http://www.foxnews.com
President Obama lifted the decades-long U.S. arms embargo against Vietnam on Monday in an apparent effort to shore up the communist country's defenses against an increasingly aggressive China
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Short But Cogent
05-23-2016
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zerogov.com
Voting is not only a childish abdication of individual responsibility but a declaration of war on your neighbor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Police could take over your self-driving car
05-23-2016
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http://www.naturalnews.com
(NaturalNews) Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are no longer mere creatures of science fiction. Tech companies are investing billions of dollars to make AVs a reality. Although self-driving cars are a ways down the road, their impending arrival provokes a h
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police State
State To Allow Cops To Snatch Your Phone After Being Stopped & Search It Using A "Textalyzer'
05-23-2016
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http://www.trueactivist.com
New York legislators are seeking to expand the state's involvement in the issue of cellphone use while driving, and this time with dire consequences for privacy rights.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Education: Private Religious Schools
Brush-Fire Wars
05-23-2016
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
The escalation of Federal and state pressure against the Christian school movement is reaching a crisis stage. Day after day, some pastor or headmaster is put under new bureaucratic regulations. No longer is the battle against the independent schools
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Climate Change
The Benefits of Global Warming
05-23-2016
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LewRockwell
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law.
Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea,
whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not
infrequently it is downright idiotic.
~ H.L. Mencken
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Bayer's Acquisition Offer Could Literally Make Monsanto Disappear
05-23-2016
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Bayer has now confirmed a buyout bid for agrichemical giant, Monsanto -- the maker of Agent Orange, RoundUp, and genetically-modified crops -- otherwise known as one of the most hated companies on the planet.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Political Theory
Frank And Claire Clinton--The Real 'House Of Cards' Story
05-23-2016
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By Greg Maybury
For "House of Cards" fans who can't get enough of fictional President Frank Underwood and his First Lady Claire, it must be tempting to view Bill and Hillary Clinton as their real-life political doppelgangers.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Trump Victory Odds Soar As The Hillary Clinton 'Death Cross' Strikes
05-23-2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
ABC, Fox News, and Rasmussen now have polls suggesting Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton nationally and for the first time during this campaign RealClearPolitics 'tracker' has Trump with a 0.2pt lead
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Governments Create Monopolies And Cause Worker-Exploitation, Not Free-Markets
05-23-2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Richard M. Ebeling
The world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies.
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News Link • Russia
Can Russia Survive Washington's Attack?
05-23-2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
It is not only American generals who are irresponsible and declare on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that "Russia is an existential threat to the United States" and also to the Baltic states, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, and all of Europe.
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News Link • Nutrition
U.S. Unveils First New Nutrition Facts Label In Over 20 Years
05-23-2016
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http://www.popsci.com
Features updates to serving sizes and info on added sugar
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • China
"Everything Is Plunging" - China Commodity Carnage Continues
05-23-2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Hot on the heels of Trumpian-size tariffs imposed by The Obama administration on a desperately glutted and mal-invested steel industry, the entire panic-buying "well the market is always right", "China is recovering" narrative based rally in Chinese
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News Link • Military
A recent republican proposed Military Budget Could Make Every Homeless...
05-23-2016
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http://wearechange.org, by Danny F. Quest
A recent republican proposed Military Budget Could Make Every Homeless Person In The United States A Millionaire.
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News Link • United States
Beware What You Wish For: Russia is Ready for War
05-23-2016
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org
So foreign ministers from the 28 NATO member-nations met in Brussels for a two-day summit, while mighty military power Montenegro was inducted as a new member.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Much Ado About Restrooms
05-23-2016
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org
Debates over the US government's foreign and economic policies have recently taken a backseat to the debate over what bathroom transgender individuals should use. The two sides of the debate both believe that government has the legitimate authority
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Lockheed Martin outlines plan to send humans to Mars orbit by 2028
05-23-2016
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http://www.spaceflightinsider.com
A plan to send humans to Martian orbit was outlined by members of Lockheed Martin during the Humans to Mars Summit and, at the same time, the U.S. House of Representatives Space Subcommittee in Washington, DC. The plan calls for a laboratory around t
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News Link • Inventions
New Surveillance System From Purdue May Let Cops Use All Of The Cameras, Everywhere
05-23-2016
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https://www.technocracy.news
The 30 million or so surveillance cameras peering into nearly every corner of American life might freak you out a bit, but you could always tell yourself that no one can access them all. Until now.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Bestselling Historian Says Promise Of AI Means Rise Of 'Useless Class' Of Humans
05-23-2016
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https://www.technocracy.news
It is hard to miss the warnings. In the race to make computers more intelligent than us, humanity will summon a demon, bring forth the end of days, and code itself into oblivion. Instead of silicon assistants we'll build silicon assassins.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robot Cowboys Monitor And Manage Animals On Giant Australian Farms
05-23-2016
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https://www.technocracy.news
Farmers, put your feet up. Autonomous robots are already being used to inspect crops, count yields and dig up weeds- now they are shepherds too.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Manning files appeal to reduce 35-year prison sentence
05-23-2016
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http://www.foxnews.com
The imprisoned U.S. Army private convicted of sending secret information to WikiLeaks in what is the biggest leak of classified documents in U.S. history has filed an appeal to have his 35-year prison sentence reduced to 10 years.
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News Link • Drones
DRONE SWARM WILL FLY ALONGSIDE F-35 FIGHTER
05-23-2016
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http://nextnewsnetwork.com
KRIS OSBORN for Scout News reports, The Air Force Chief Scientist said F-35 pilots will be able to control a small group of drones flying nearby from the aircraft cockpit in the air, performing sensing, reconnaissance and targeting functions.
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News Link • Movies
Snapchat is letting X-Men fans transform into their favorite characters today
05-23-2016
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http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-x-men-sn
Twentieth Century Fox has bought up nine Sponsored Snapchat Lenses to promote the forthcoming "X-Men: Apocalypse" movie.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Corruption
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs
05-23-2016
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TheGuardian
As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Oregon school-board bans books that question climate change - Nazi-Style Censorship
05-23-2016
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http://wearechange.org
The Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution this week that bans textbooks and other teaching materials that deny climate change exists or cast doubt on whether humans are to blame.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
"Moral" Veganism Makes No Sense
05-23-2016
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http://wearechange.org
Dear Moral Vegans,
First off, just to clarify- I have nothing against Vegans or the Vegan Diet. This is simply about the condemnation that is often used to convey Veganism as somehow "morally and ethically superior". I've been a vegan, I hav
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • United Kingdom
David Icke on 9/11 and lizards in Buckingham Palace theories
05-23-2016
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http://wearechange.org
David Icke is asked about conspiracy theories around 9/11 and lizards in Buckingham Palace.
The former footballer and TV presenter spoke to Andrew Neil, Liz Kendall and Michael Portillo about theories.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • United States
The Dreadful Kagan Clan----Hillary's Warmongers In Waiting
05-23-2016
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
The U.S. is heading straight for a fiscal calamity in the next decade. Even if you believe the CBO's Rosy Scenario projections-----which assume that we will go 207 months thru 2026 without a recession or double the longest expansion on record and
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News Link • Free Market
Keynes Must Die
05-23-2016
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
In 2012, Barack Obama warned that the United States would fall into a depression if Ron Paul's plan to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget were enacted.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Why lab-made synthetic marijuana is NOTHING like actual cannabis
05-23-2016
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http://www.naturalnews.com
(NaturalNews) It seems to be standard operating procedure among scientists and drug manufacturers that whenever a natural substance is found to have beneficial medicinal or health-promoting properties, a synthetic version produced in the laboratory w
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Hardliners Harden Further
05-23-2016
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nationalinterest.org
There already shouldn't have been any doubt about the orientation of the current Israeli government and the associated obduracy of that government in blocking any path toward resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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News Link • Israel
As Israel's DM, Avigdor Lieberman Becomes West Bank's Military Ruler
05-23-2016
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AntiWar.com
Pro-Settlement and Anti-Arab, Lieberman Is a Recipe for Disaster
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
The FBI's secret biometrics database they don't want you to see
05-23-2016
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RT
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to prevent information about its creepy biometric database, which contains fingerprint, face, iris, and voice scans of millions of Americans, from getting out to the public.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robot ranchers monitor animals on giant Australian farms
05-23-2016
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newscientist.com
Farmers, put your feet up. Autonomous robots are already being used to inspect crops, count yields and dig up weeds - now they are shepherds too.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Outdoor Recreation
Hand-held microwave takes home convenience into the wild
05-23-2016
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gizmag.com
Flicking on a gas burner or cobbling together a fire might be the most common way of cooking in the great outdoors, but another option is on the way.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
Airbus channels H.R. Giger for world's first 3D-printed motorcycle
05-23-2016
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gizmag.com
Airbus is typically associated with making airplanes, but a subsidiary called APWorks just announced the creation of the world's first 3D-printed motorcycle that can actually be used as a daily rider.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
What Is Donald Trump Doing With Henry Kissinger
05-22-2016
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https://www.youtube.com
In this video Luke Rudkowski breaks down an important meeting that just took place with the republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump and globalist henchman Henry Kissinger. The meeting was a secret one but concluded a series of phones calls that t
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Star Trek Beyond - Trailer (2016) - Paramount Pictures
05-22-2016
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https://www.youtube.com
From director Justin Lin comes STAR TREK BEYOND starring Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zach Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban. In theaters July 22nd.
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