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Date Sent: 2017-04-05
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, April 6, 2017 |
We Finally Know When the Giant Robot Duel Between the US and Japan Will Take Place
Russia, China Lay Groundwork For BRICS Transactions in Gold -- Airlander 10 airship gets outfitted for cushier landings -- Pence is Right on Being Alone with Women -- Disruptive space technologies from Aerojet Rocketdyne include a 200 kilowatt... -- 2 Charts Show How Close The U.S. Is To Healthcare Collapse -- How the Market Is Already Repealing Obamacare -- The Hollowed Out System -- US military should get out of the Middle East -- NATO Color Revolution against Russia -- Boomerang: 'Russia-gate' Turns Into 'Spy-gate' -- By Jingo, an "Act of War!" -- Continued claims that the EMDrive is being tested on the X-37B -- Rough estimate of chances and timeline for different types of nuclear fusion successes -- Electric spinal stimulation helps paraplegic man regain control of legs -- Micronations: Run your own country -- Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water -- Masterful Interpretation Of the Manifest Causes Of WWII! -- Virginia Tech Researchers Discover Web Of Collusion Between Smartphone Apps -- US Just Admitted "ISIS HQ" They Blew Up Was Actually an Innocent Family's Home -- Merck in hot water over dangerous shingles vaccine that caused numerous injuries, deaths -- Planet wide millimeter radio telescope array now has ten times the resolution -- Illinois Revenue Freefall: Fiscal Year-to-Date -8.1% and Worsening -- Anger in Ankara Over Iraqi Kurdish Independence Moves -- US Air force plans to have independent robotic hypersonic drones for spying... -- China has built a nuclear submarine mass production superfactory -- UK to Send Military Trainers to Jordan to Help Fight IS -- A 'bionic leaf' could help feed the world by generating fertilizer from bacteria -- Russia Wins Energy War in Europe After EU Surrenders on Nord Stream 2 -- WSJ reports that Susan Rice Was Not Alone In "Unmasking" Team Trump --
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
We Finally Know When the Giant Robot Duel Between the US and Japan Will Take Place
04-05-2017
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motherboard.vice.com by Carl Franzen
The battle will take place in August 2017, over two years after the PR-savvy US robotics company Megabots issued its challenge to Japanese company Suidobashi, according to a new video.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Russia, China Lay Groundwork For BRICS Transactions in Gold
04-05-2017
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http://russia-insider.com, Paul Kaiser
Trading in local currencies has already started -- and lays the groundwork for facilitating BRICS transactions in gold
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Disruptive space technologies from Aerojet Rocketdyne include a 200 kilowatt...
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Disruptive space technologies from Aerojet Rocketdyne include a 200 kilowatt electric thruster with about 2000 ISP
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News Link • Healthcare
2 Charts Show How Close The U.S. Is To Healthcare Collapse
04-05-2017
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zerohedge.com by Patrick Watson
The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
How the Market Is Already Repealing Obamacare
04-05-2017
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fee.org by Stewart Jones
There's a common misconception that if you're opposed to government services, programs and/or departments, then you're opposed to building roads, education, people getting affordable health care and even people taking care of the sick and elder
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News Link • Government
The Hollowed Out System
04-05-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bionic Mosquito
John Batchelor interviewed Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. The topic was "Imagining the Fall of the American Empire." Vlahos doesn't just imagine it â€" it is inevitable.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US military should get out of the Middle East
04-05-2017
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https://www.bostonglobe.com, Jeffrey D. Sachs
It's time to end US military engagements in the Middle East. Drones, special operations, CIA arms supplies, military advisers, aerial bombings -- the whole nine yards.
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News Link • NATO
NATO Color Revolution against Russia
04-05-2017
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newsbud.com, Professor Filip Kovacevic
In the twenty-sixth edition of Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the articles from four Russian newspapers: Kommersant, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Izvestia and Komsomolskaya Pravda.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Boomerang: 'Russia-gate' Turns Into 'Spy-gate'
04-05-2017
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Justin Raimondo
Confirmed: Obama administration spied on Trump team
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Propaganda
By Jingo, an "Act of War!"
04-05-2017
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http://www.unz.com, Philip Giraldi
More chickenhawks on parade for war with Russia
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Continued claims that the EMDrive is being tested on the X-37B
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com
In November 2016 the International Business Times claimed the U.S. government was testing a version of the EmDrive on the Boeing X-37B and that the Chinese government has made plans to incorporate the EmDrive on its orbital space laboratory Tiangong-
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News Link • Energy
Rough estimate of chances and timeline for different types of nuclear fusion successes
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
General Fusion has revealed that one of the most critical and complex areas of its research and development â€" plasma injector technology - has now reached the minimum performance levels required for a larger scale, integrated prototype.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Electric spinal stimulation helps paraplegic man regain control of legs
04-05-2017
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newatlas.com by Rich Hardy
An innovative combination of electrical spinal stimulation and physical therapy has allowed 26-year-old Jered Chinnock to intentionally move his legs for the first time in three years, after an accident left him paralyzed.
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News Link • Emmigration
Micronations: Run your own country
04-05-2017
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http://www.dw.com
What do Kugelmugel, Sealand and Zaqistan have in common? Micronations are a bizarre lot: tiny self-proclaimed principalities and republics, often with their own passports and currencies - but no official recognition.
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News Link • Inventions
Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving common salts has been achieved.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Masterful Interpretation Of the Manifest Causes Of WWII!
04-05-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Barron Laycock
In what is often considered the most controversial of his many scholarly books, this exploration into the putative causes of World War Two by renowned British historian A.P.J. Taylor caused great controversy and discussion when published in the sixti
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News Link • Technology: Software
Virginia Tech Researchers Discover Web Of Collusion Between Smartphone Apps
04-05-2017
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https://www.technocracy.news, By: Jasper Hamill
Reasons for your paranoia have been discovered by researchers at Virginia Tech: namely, multiple apps on your smartphone are likely colluding to steal your private information. Those who build such apps are clearly displaying their technocrat mind th
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
US Just Admitted "ISIS HQ" They Blew Up Was Actually an Innocent Family's Home
04-05-2017
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com,By Claire Bernish
Five-hundred fifty-eight days after targeting an ostensive headquarters of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, the United States finally admitted to bombing a family home and killing a university professor and three family members, wounding at least tw
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Merck in hot water over dangerous shingles vaccine that caused numerous injuries, deaths
04-05-2017
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: Ethan Huff
Commercials for the jab showing happy people free of shingles are a common feature of television advertising. But Merck & Co's "Zosatavax" vaccine to prevent varicella, the adult version of chickenpox, is causing the international drug giant so
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Planet wide millimeter radio telescope array now has ten times the resolution
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com
A powerful new array of radio telescopes is being deployed for the first time this week, as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile joins a global network of antennas poised to make some of the highest resolution images that
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Illinois Revenue Freefall: Fiscal Year-to-Date -8.1% and Worsening
04-05-2017
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https://mishtalk.com, Mish
Illinois' fiscal condition is in bad shape and worsening. Jim Muschinske, Revenue Manager, notes a "February Freefall".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Anger in Ankara Over Iraqi Kurdish Independence Moves
04-05-2017
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https://www.newsbud.com, Al Monitor
Attempts by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq to expand its territory, while inching its way toward independence, may augur more difficulties for Turkey in a region where it already faces multiple problems.
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News Link • Drones
US Air force plans to have independent robotic hypersonic drones for spying...
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
US Air force plans to have independent robotic hypersonic drones for spying and attacking in the 2040s
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News Link • China
China has built a nuclear submarine mass production superfactory
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
China's Bohai Shipyard has built a new large-scale plant to mass produce nuclear submarines.
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News Link • United Kingdom
UK to Send Military Trainers to Jordan to Help Fight IS
04-05-2017
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https://www.newsbud.com, BBC
Britain will send military trainers to Jordan to help the country's air force in the fight against so-called Islamic State, the prime minister is to say.
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News Link • Agriculture
A 'bionic leaf' could help feed the world by generating fertilizer from bacteria
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com, Eurekalert
In the second half of the 20th century, the mass use of fertilizer was part of an agricultural boom called the "green revolution" that was largely credited with averting a global food crisis.
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News Link • Russia
Russia Wins Energy War in Europe After EU Surrenders on Nord Stream 2
04-05-2017
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https://www.newsbud.com, THE DURAN
The European Commission's agreement to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline signals Russia's conclusive victory in its protracted struggle to secure its position as Europe's principal gas supplier whilst retaining control of its energy resources.
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News Link • Conspiracies
WSJ reports that Susan Rice Was Not Alone In "Unmasking" Team Trump
04-05-2017
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Prison Planet.com by Zero Hedge
As part of its daily wrap of the Susan Rice newsflow, which focused on her first media appearance since she was "outed" as the persona responsible for "unmasking" members of team Trump, the WSJ provides two new pieces of incremental informati
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News Link • Prepping
These Two South Carolina Lawmakers Are Planning to Create Survivalist Communities Across the Country
04-05-2017
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shtfplan.com by Daniel Lang
When you hear words like "militia" and "prepper" and "survival retreat," you probably imagine a rural, conservative, blue collar fellow who loathes the government.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan sets roadmap for independence referendum
04-05-2017
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https://www.rt.com
The major parties in Iraqi Kurdistan have agreed on a roadmap for a much-anticipated referendum on independence. Although a timeline for the landmark vote is yet to be set, the region's leaders say it is Kurds' "natural right" to secede from
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Electric spinal stimulation helps paraplegic man regain control of legs
04-05-2017
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newatlas.com by Rich Hardy
An innovative combination of electrical spinal stimulation and physical therapy has allowed 26-year-old Jered Chinnock to intentionally move his legs for the first time in three years, after an accident left him paralyzed.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Acceleration in projected growth of global robotics industry
04-05-2017
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nextbigfuture.com Author: brian wang
In 2016, International Data Corporation (IDC) has identified robotics as one of six Innovation Accelerators that will drive digital transformation by opening new revenue streams and changing the way work is performed.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Steve Bannon Removed From Trump's National Security Council, Threatened To Quit
04-05-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Update: as we apended in an earlier post, asked if the NSC move was a demotion for Bannon, Pence said "not for Steve, not for Ton.
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News Link • Germany
Germans Concerned After 270,000 Syrian Refugees Granted Permission To Bring Family Members
04-05-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
With worries about mass migration having largely faded from Germany's consciousness after a record surge in 2015, and an angry popular reaction, prompted Angela Merkel to curb the inflow of refugees, there is renewed concern in Germany following a re
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Coast Guard to Congress: Don't Move Us to Pentagon
04-05-2017
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https://www.newsbud.com, MILITARY TIMES
The U.S. Coast Guard is happy to be part of the Homeland Security Department and doesn't see a need to reorganize under the Defense Department, an official said.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israeli drones spraying harmful substances on Palestinians' produce
04-05-2017
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http://www.presstv.com
Israeli drones have sprayed weed killers and pesticides on Palestinian crops in the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Rx for Leviathan
04-05-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Butler Shaffer
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops ?" no, but the kind of man the country turns out. ?" Ralph Waldo Emerson
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News Link • Just For Fun!
AMAZING VIDEO: Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand
04-05-2017
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https://www.youtube.com, Mystery History
A builder from Michigan USA has discovered some amazing techniques of how to move and lift huge stones onto one another.
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News Link • Constitution
Rx for Leviathan by Butler Shaffer
04-05-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com - Butler Shaffer
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Elon Musks path to worlds richest person with Spacex, Global Internet Satellite Network, Tesla
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com
Elon Musk has plans to launch V-band low-Earth orbit (VLEO) constellation that would consist of 7,518 satellites which will follow the earlier proposed 4,425 satellites that would function in Ka- and Ku-bands.
This global gigabit per second low la
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
500 job openings at Spacex and 2000 jobs at the Tesla Gigafactory
04-05-2017
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com
Spacex has around 500 job openings on its careers site.
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