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Date Sent: 2017-04-22
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Saturday, April 22, 2017 |
Existing Home Sales Best Since February 2007: Good as it Gets?
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hints at running for UK parliament at election -- Watch this all-electric 'flying car' take its first test flight in Germany -- Ancient stone carvings confirm how comet struck Earth in 10,950BC, sparking the rise of ... -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is about to plunge between Saturn and its rings -- -- How Cryptographers Will 'Fight Quantum With Quantum' -- SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: April 23, 2017 Edition -- Your Bitcoins Open to CIA and Criminals, Heed Wikileaks' Warning -- Killing People with Sun Deficiency -- Turkey Could Start a Global Meltdown This Month -- Newsbud Academy- "Foundations of Anglo-American & Russian Geopolitics" -- If This Is Freedom and Democracy, What Is Tyranny? -- Bioethics Film Festival Urges Scientists To Heed Warnings Of Science-Fiction -- WTI Crude Crashes Below $50 As Hedgies Lose Faith In OPEC -- Is Democracy in a Death Spiral? -- Will Banks Allow Another Slew Of Oil Bankruptcies? -- Trump Administration Begins Quiet Preparations For Government Shutdown -- History of EPA employee misconduct could result in layoffs -- 'It's Our Land': Assad Says Syrian Army Will Expel Turks From Northern Syria -- Prosecutors dismiss more than 21,500 drug cases in wake of Mass. lab chemist's misconduct -- Justice Dept. debating charges against WikiLeaks members in revelations of diplomatic, CIA materials -- Desperate Malls Turn to Concerts and Food Trucks -- The Simple Reason Why a Second American Civil War May Be Inevitable -- Why "Nothing Matters": -- 'Who let her in? -- Why Are So Many Millennials Living With Their Parents Instead Of Getting Married And... -- Vacation's Over: Obama Returns to Public Life Next Week -- Google is a monopoly -- and it's crushing the internet -- Tesla Model 3 To Lead To Supercharger Apocalypse? -- FCC clears way for big TV mergers, eases broadband price limits --
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News Link • Housing
Existing Home Sales Best Since February 2007: Good as it Gets?
04-21-2017
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mishtalk.com by Mish
Existing home sales beat expectations with a climb to 5.71 million units, seasonally adjusted annualized (SAAR).
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News Link • Wikileaks
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hints at running for UK parliament at election
04-21-2017
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smh.com.au by Nick Miller
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he is seriously considering running for the UK parliament in June's snap election.
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News Link • Transportation
Watch this all-electric 'flying car' take its first test flight in Germany
04-21-2017
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theverge.com by Andrew J. Hawkins
Lilium Jet claims its can reduce travel headaches with a network of vertical take-off and landing aircraft
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ancient stone carvings confirm how comet struck Earth in 10,950BC, sparking the rise of ...
04-21-2017
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telegraph.co.uk By Sarah Knapton
Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000BC, a devastating event which wiped out woolly mammoths and sparked the rise of civilisations.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: April 23, 2017 Edition
04-21-2017
John Semmens
Murderer Demands Release as "Reparation for Slavery"
Kori Ali Muhammad, the man under arrest for four murders, demanded he be released as "reparation for slavery. Whites enslaved millions of blacks and killed thousands of them. The four whit
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News Link • Bitcoin
Your Bitcoins Open to CIA and Criminals, Heed Wikileaks' Warning
04-21-2017
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bitcoin.com By Wendy McElroy
Wikileaks has exposed the CIA's hacking tools and techniques in "the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency."
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News Link • Turkey
Turkey Could Start a Global Meltdown This Month
04-21-2017
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LewRockwell.com By Nick Giambruno
Dozens of renegade commandos in three Black Hawk helicopters swooped in on the president's holiday residence.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Newsbud Academy- "Foundations of Anglo-American & Russian Geopolitics"
04-21-2017
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newsbud.com by Sibel Edmonds
What drives the behavior of Great Powers?
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News Link • Political Theory
If This Is Freedom and Democracy, What Is Tyranny?
04-21-2017
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paulcraigroberts.org by Paul Craig Roberts
"Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience…
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bioethics Film Festival Urges Scientists To Heed Warnings Of Science-Fiction
04-21-2017
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technocracy.news By Cait Molden
A public dialog on 'what-could-go-wrong?' with misdirected science is always welcome, but it will take more than 50 people to make it to truly make it to the public arena. Nevertheless, some people are alarmed that scientists are going too far an
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News Link • Oil
WTI Crude Crashes Below $50 As Hedgies Lose Faith In OPEC
04-21-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Oil is headed for its biggest weekly loss since early March as signs that OPEC will continue with output reductions are offset by growing U.S. production and inventory gluts.
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News Link • Political Theory
Is Democracy in a Death Spiral?
04-21-2017
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LewRockwell.com by Patrick J. Buchanan
"You all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don't think it's worth a damn. Churchill is right.
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Will Banks Allow Another Slew Of Oil Bankruptcies?
04-21-2017
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zerohedge.com by Irina Slav
Last week, U.S. banks boosted the borrowing bases for several independent energy companies, lifting spirits in the industry.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Administration Begins Quiet Preparations For Government Shutdown
04-21-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Even as Donald Trump is desperate to show to the US population, and especially his voter base, some actual achievement before his first 100 days run out next weekend, prompting him to tell AP that he will unveil a "tremendous" tax ut plan next week .
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News Link • Environmental Protection Agency-E.P.A
History of EPA employee misconduct could result in layoffs
04-21-2017
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Fox News By Elizabeth Harrington
The Environmental Protection Agency has been riddled with employee misconduct, including workers who drink, smoke marijuana, and watch porn on the job.
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News Link • Syria
'It's Our Land': Assad Says Syrian Army Will Expel Turks From Northern Syria
04-21-2017
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russia-insider.com
Syria's President Bashar Assad vows to fight the Turkish Army if it refuses to leave Syria
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors dismiss more than 21,500 drug cases in wake of Mass. lab chemist's misconduct
04-21-2017
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washingtonpost.com ByTom Jackman
Prosecutors in eight counties around Boston revealed Tuesday that they would dismiss 21,587 drug cases tainted by the misconduct of Massachusetts state drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan over a period of eight years,...
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News Link • Wikileaks
Justice Dept. debating charges against WikiLeaks members in revelations of diplomatic, CIA materials
04-21-2017
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washingtonpost.com By Matt Zapotosky
Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents and ...
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Desperate Malls Turn to Concerts and Food Trucks
04-21-2017
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bloomberg.com by Heather Perlberg
Retail landlords use their parking lots as event space
Carnivals being held for first time at Texas, Wyoming malls
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News Link • Racism
'Who let her in?
04-21-2017
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dailymail.co.uk By Jane Flanagan
She is either SICK or a fraud!' White race faker Rachel Dolezal causes outrage as she lectures black South Africans about her 'struggle' with being 'trans black'
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News Link • Millenial Generation
Why Are So Many Millennials Living With Their Parents Instead Of Getting Married And...
04-21-2017
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com by Michael Snyder
Did you know that the percentage of 18 to 34-year-old Americans that are married and living with a spouse has dropped by more than half since 1975?
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Google is a monopoly -- and it's crushing the internet
04-21-2017
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theweek.com by Ryan Cooper
Five to 10 years ago, independent bloggers used to be able to get by on internet advertising, like the broadsheets of yore.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla Model 3 To Lead To Supercharger Apocalypse?
04-21-2017
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insideevs.com by Steven Loveday
What is the ratio of Tesla vehicles per Supercharger in busy areas, and will Model 3 owners face impossible odds when attempting to join the already overcrowded locations?
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News Link • FCC
FCC clears way for big TV mergers, eases broadband price limits
04-21-2017
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latimes.com By Jim Puzzanghera
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday accelerated its deregulation push under Republican control, voting to ease limits on broadcast TV ownership and prices that large telecom companies can charge businesses and governments for bulk broad
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News Link • Obamacare
How the Market Is Already Repealing Obamacare
04-22-2017
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arclein
Six months into the pregnancy, we received a letter explaining that due to the changes in the law, our policy would no longer cover maternity or OB-GYN services. This meant that our insurance would no longer pay for anything related to the birth of
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News Link • France
Fears shroud French election after Champs Elysees attack
04-21-2017
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yahoo.com by Clare BYRNE
The killing of a policeman on Paris's Champs Elysees claimed by the Islamic State group rocked France's presidential race Friday with just two days to go before voting in the closest election for decades
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News Link • Agriculture
Agriculture and Autism: A Perfect Match
04-22-2017
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arclein
One summer during college, I had a position as a sustainable agriculture intern. The farm I worked at grew vegetables and raised livestock, using permaculture techniques. What made it unique, though, was its farmers.
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News Link • Science
Unique Little Creatures
04-22-2017
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arclein
There're many varieties of mushrooms, over 100,000 in fact. Even with all the different species, mushrooms have some commonalties. Mushrooms have a special type of polysaccharide called beta-glucan, that's thought to improve our immune function.
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News Link • Islam-Islamic Affairs
A Former First Lady Presses On for a Tolerant, Feminist Islam
04-22-2017
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arclein
"There's nobody else in Indonesia like her, who cares this much about marginalized groups," Shinta Ratri, the leader of the school, gushed.
Since her husband's death in 2009, Ms. Sinta, a women's studies major who was paralyzed from the wa
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Hernandez left behind a handwritten suicide note for his gay jailhouse LOVER -
04-21-2017
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dailymail.co.uk By Martin Gould
- who is now on suicide watch - and two more for his fiancée and four-year-old daughter
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News Link • Anthropology
SHIRE GENIUS Flores Man 'hobbits' found in Indonesia were NOT ...
04-21-2017
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thesun.co.uk By Margi Murphy
Researchers discover that strange hobbits were not shrunken versions of humanity's ancient ancestor, Homo erectus
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News Link • China
China Is Building The World's Largest Nuclear Submarine Facility
04-21-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Perhaps it is time to shift attention away from the "rally around the flag" diversion that is North Korea and pay some attention to China, which delighted by the ongoing geopolitical distractions is currently building the world's largest ..
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News Link • Iran
Iran Sticks To Nuclear Deal, But U.S. Says It Will Review Sanctions
04-21-2017
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npr.org by Greg Myre
As President Trump wages a rhetorical battle with North Korea over its nuclear program, his secretary of state says the nuclear deal with Iran will now be placed under review.
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News Link • Activism
UC Berkeley orders cancellation of Ann Coulter speech
04-21-2017
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sfgate.com By Nanette Asimov
UC Berkeley administrators canceled a scheduled speech by right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, saying they can't protect participants from rioting if it goes ahead --
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Targeted by Obama, DeVry and other for-profit colleges rebounding under Trump
04-21-2017
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chicagotribune.com By Robert Channick and Becky Ye
It may be too late for shuttered Corinthian Colleges, ITT Technical Institute or even Trump University, but Wall Street is betting the potential rollback of Obama-era initiatives to hold for-profit colleges accountable may lead to a resurgence of the
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News Link • Immigration
First protected DREAMer is deported under Trump
04-21-2017
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usatoday.com by Alan Gomez
Federal agents ignored President Trump's pledge to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children by sending a young man back to his native Mexico, the first such documented case, ...
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News Link • Censorship
The Hidden Laborers Training AI to Keep Ads Off Hateful YouTube Videos
04-21-2017
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Wired by Davey Alba
Every day across the nation, people doing work for Google log in to their computers and start watching YouTube.
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News Link • Wikileaks
Attorney General Sessions Seeks to Jail Publishers of Leaks
04-21-2017
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AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz
Attorneys Say No Legitimate Basis for Charging Publishers
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News Link • California
Power restored in SF after blackout shuts businesses, cable cars
04-21-2017
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sfgate.com by By Sarah Ravani
A huge blackout probably caused by a fire at a PG&E substation swept through San Francisco on Friday, bringing everyday life to a virtual standstill as homes and businesses and courtrooms went dark, traffic lights stopped working, BART and Muni servi
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump says he will release tax reform package next week
04-21-2017
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ap.org By JULIE PACE
President Donald Trump says businesses and individuals will receive a "massive tax cut" under a tax reform package he plans to unveil next week.
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