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Date Sent: 2017-08-09
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, August 9, 2017 |
Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter for Some Safety Reviews
08-09-17 -- James Corbett - Jim Cantrell -- (VIDEO & MP3s LOADED) -- Goldman Is Amazed By The Market's Non-Reaction To The Korean Crisis -- WHY AI COULD END UP SAVING US, RATHER THAN KILLING US -- Pentagon Seeks Authority For Airstrikes In The Philippines -- Loretta Lynch BUSTED in new email cover-up -- It's Begun: Parents Who Refuse To Vaccinate Their Kids Are Being Fined And Punished -- Facebook declares WAR on CHILDREN: Censors independent science ... -- Anything Goes When You're a Cop in America -- Authoritarian Vaccine War Greets Back To School Parents Worldwide -- Pardon the Bundy Family and their Supporters -- "War Is A Racket" - Lockheed Martin Sees Jump In Missile-Defense Inquiries -- Natural News targeted by sophisticated DDOS attack; Health Ranger suspects CDC ... -- If America Was Trying to Start a World War, This Is How It Would Happen -- Legal automation can lead to more justice and fewer lawyers -- Student Fakes Being Black to Get Into Medical School Under Affirmative Action -- Fork Wars: Segwit Lock-In and Communication Breakdown -- CIA Hints at Regime Change in Venezuela Amidst Internal Chaos -- US to Terror-Bomb the Philippines? -- North Korea Responds To Trump Threat, Says It Is "Seriously Considering"... -- Celebrities and tech execs, luxury campsites in tow, are flocking to Burning Man -- Glen Campbell, 'Rhinestone Cowboy' singer, dead at 81 -- Flesh-Eating Bugs Seriously Messed Up This Teen's Legs After a Casual Beach Dip -- Self-Ownership Is for All Shapes and Sizes -- HR McMaster: Trump's Ally or Enemy? -- Russia, US, Israel Talks on Syria -- Australia Just Banned An Anti-Vaxxer And All Hell Has Broken Loose -- War Drums Beating: North Korea Tops The List -- WE'RE BACK BABY! TRUMP'S LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT WILL HAVE ... -- Palestinian Authority Hostile to Gazans --
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Is Amazed By The Market's Non-Reaction To The Korean Crisis
08-09-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com
One of the recurring themes of broad market complacency has been traders' unwillingness to price in, or even react, to surging geopolitical risk. This morning, Goldman picks up on this conundrum, with a note by Charles Himmelberg in which Goldman's c
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Pentagon Seeks Authority For Airstrikes In The Philippines
08-09-2017
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http://www.trueactivist.com
ISIS affiliates have been active in the southern Philippines in recent months, seizing the city of Marawi and leading to a protracted battle with the Philippine military, which the US has been participating in a limited role.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Obama Administration
Loretta Lynch BUSTED in new email cover-up
08-09-2017
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https://thehornnews.com
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has just been BUSTED in a desperate attempt to cover-up a highly unethical and legally questionable meeting last year. During the height of the 2016 campaign, as her Justice Department investigated criminal alle
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
It's Begun: Parents Who Refuse To Vaccinate Their Kids Are Being Fined And Punished
08-09-2017
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Pro-vaccine positions contend the safety of vaccines and their track record of nearly annihilating deadly and dreaded diseases; but detractors say the benefits have not been examined in the context of the shots potential interactions with one another
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook declares WAR on CHILDREN: Censors independent science ...
08-09-2017
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http://www.naturalnews.com
that tries to protect infants from medical harm...(Natural News) As part of Facebook's war against truth and reality, the social media Ministry of Truth just blocked 100 percent of all posts from Natural News, one of the internet's most trafficke
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • United States
Anything Goes When You're a Cop in America
08-09-2017
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https://www.rutherford.org
"There is one criminal justice system for citizens--especially black and brown ones--and another for police in the United States."--Redditt Hudson, former St. Louis police officer
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Government
Authoritarian Vaccine War Greets Back To School Parents Worldwide
08-09-2017
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http://vaxxter.com
With the first week of official back to school beginning for many parents, the polarizing vaccine debate is back center-stage.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Pardon the Bundy Family and their Supporters
08-09-2017
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https://stonecoldtruth.com
The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
"War Is A Racket" - Lockheed Martin Sees Jump In Missile-Defense Inquiries
08-09-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson should think about sending Kim Jong Un a gift basket.
The escalating tensions between President Donald Trump and the North's impertinent boy king have, predictably, been a boon for the US military-industrial com
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Media: Internet
Natural News targeted by sophisticated DDOS attack; Health Ranger suspects CDC ...
08-09-2017
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http://www.naturalnews.com
behind "expensive" effort to silence debate on vaccine safety...(Natural News) If you tried to visit Natural News and several of our affiliated websites including popular search engine GoodGopher.com over the past 48-plus hours and were unsuccess
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • United States
If America Was Trying to Start a World War, This Is How It Would Happen
08-09-2017
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org
Last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump signed new sanctions into law against Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The legislation was supported so overwhelmingly in Congress that President Trump's ability to veto the legislation was rendered completel
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Legal automation can lead to more justice and fewer lawyers
08-09-2017
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com
A lawyerbot called Do Not Pay helps people contest parking tickets. In London and New York, it helped people overturn 160,000 tickets in its first 21 months.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Affirmative Action
Student Fakes Being Black to Get Into Medical School Under Affirmative Action
08-09-2017
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https://www.youtube.com
Meet the man who pretended to be black so he would get accepted to medical school under the lower standards they have for black people because of affirmative action. Subscribe now for more videos every day, and I'll see you tomorrow!
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Fork Wars: Segwit Lock-In and Communication Breakdown
08-09-2017
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https://news.bitcoin.com
Segregated Witness has officially locked-in and bitcoin's price is currently coasting along at $3430. Even though Bitcoin market prices have rallied to new all time highs after the August 1 hard fork, both Bitcoin and the newly formed network, Bitc
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Hints at Regime Change in Venezuela Amidst Internal Chaos
08-09-2017
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http://libertyviral.com
As if the Venezuelans didn't have enough to worry about. Dealing with the effects of the socialist Venezuelan government's interventionist policies has burdened the populace to its breaking point. The Central Intelligence Agency is now hinting it
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Korea/North Korea
North Korea Responds To Trump Threat, Says It Is "Seriously Considering"...
08-09-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike On Guam...Challenge accepted. If Trump thought that his bluff would be sufficient to finally shut up North Korea, and put an end to Kim's provocative behavior, well... bluff called because North Korea's state-run KCNA news
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News Link • Events: America
Celebrities and tech execs, luxury campsites in tow, are flocking to Burning Man
08-09-2017
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http://www.sfgate.com
Socialite Paris Hilton made her first trip to Burning Man in 2016, and she documented the hell out of the experience. Behind her, you can see the luxury RV rentals that some wealthy attendees utilize instead of traditional hand-built camps.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Glen Campbell, 'Rhinestone Cowboy' singer, dead at 81
08-09-2017
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http://www.tennessean.com
Glen Travis Campbell brought country music to new audiences. He found success as a session musician before embarking on a solo career that included several smash hits. He announced he was suffering with Alzheimer's disease in 2011. USA TODAY
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • WTF?
Flesh-Eating Bugs Seriously Messed Up This Teen's Legs After a Casual Beach Dip
08-09-2017
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http://www.sciencealert.com, JACINTA BOWLER
What the hell, Australia.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • France
Self-Ownership Is for All Shapes and Sizes
08-09-2017
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https://fee.org, Bill Wirtz
Whenever France is back in the news, it's usually a story about yet another ludicrous ban. And boy, have we seen an awful, awful, awful, awful, awwwwfuuuul lot of those in the past. It almost seems like the "ban all the things" internet meme has foun
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News Link • Australia
Australia Just Banned An Anti-Vaxxer And All Hell Has Broken Loose
08-09-2017
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http://vaxxter.com
'Australia to me is literally the worst country I've visited,' she said during an interview with some New Zealand parents.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
War Drums Beating: North Korea Tops The List
08-09-2017
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https://www.youtube.com
The UN Security Council resolution putting more sanctions on North Korea over the weekend is fueling the flames of neocon dreams of pre-emptive war. Will they actually be so insane? Bet on it.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Trump Administration
WE'RE BACK BABY! TRUMP'S LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT WILL HAVE ...
08-09-2017
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https://www.youtube.com
EVERY AMERICAN WORKER YELLING "HOORAY!" ...Emily Nowak for Liberty Writers reports, President Trump promised during his campaign to bring manufacturing back to America, and he's just delivered another major win. The president sent out a tweet o
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News Link • United States
South Dakota Airmen Arrive "Ready To Fight Tonight" From Guam
08-09-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com
It appears things are starting to move fast...
Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs reports from Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • General Opinion
How Much Gold Should the Common Man Own?
08-09-2017
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https://mishtalk.com
Earlier today, I had the pleasure of discussing gold, equity valuations, bond bubbles, and inflation with Greg Hunter at USA Watchdog.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Venezuela
Venezuela's new assembly declares itself all-powerful
08-09-2017
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http://hosted.ap.org
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The new constitutional assembly assumed even more power in Venezuela by declaring itself as the superior body to all other governmental institutions, including the opposition-controlled congress.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
A fake Starbucks ad is trying to lure DREAMers to round them up for deportation
08-09-2017
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https://thinkprogress.org
Contrary to a fake ad promoted by social media users, the coffee-shop giant Starbucks will not be offering discounts to undocumented immigrants on August 11, the company has confirmed.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Trump Administration
Mike Pence's real power move
08-09-2017
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http://www.politico.com
Amid White House staff changes, the vice president has replaced his long-serving chief of staff with sharp-elbowed political operative Nick Ayers.
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News Link • United Kingdom
Britain's Two Biggest Newspapers Urge Citizens to Locate Their Nearest Nuclear Bunker
08-09-2017
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https://www.infowars.com
Readers told to make preparations for potential war...With tensions between the United States and North Korea once again on the rise, Britain's two biggest newspapers are warning citizens in the UK how to prepare for nuclear war.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Yes, Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value. Neither Does a $1 Bill
08-09-2017
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https://www.wired.com
Bitcoin: fad or the future? The question has dogged the digital currency since its inception nearly a decade ago, and recent developments raise it anew. Last week, a new variant of bitcoin emerged via a "fork" in its underlying code, threatening
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Will the upcoming total eclipse of the sun create a national emergency? Some states think so
08-09-2017
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http://www.naturalnews.com
(Natural News) Tens of millions of Americans are eagerly awaiting a chance to view the moon's near-total eclipse of the sun on August 21, an event that won't happen again in our lifetimes as it only occurs once every 99 years.
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News Link • Agriculture
As California's labor shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots
08-09-2017
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arclein
Now, the $47-billion agriculture industry is trying to bring technological innovation up to warp speed before it runs out of low-wage immigrant workers.
California will have to remake its fields like it did its factories, with more machines and
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News Link • Science
Scientists At Harvard Find Protein In Blood That Reverses Aging
08-09-2017
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arclein
The protein, called GDF-11, was injected into old mice. Old mice, much like humans, develop thickened heart walls as they grow older. The heart was reduced in size and thickness, resembling the healthy hearts of younger mice.
A finding by Richard
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Race of White Giants Described in Native Legends From Many Tribes
08-09-2017
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arclein
Horatio Bardwell Cushman wrote in his 1899 book "History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians": "The tradition of the Choctaws . . . told of a race of giants that once inhabited the now State of Tennessee, and with whom their ancestor
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News Link • Climate Change
All hell breaks loose as the tundra thaws
08-09-2017
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arclein
Strange things have been happening in the frozen tundra of northern Siberia. Last August a boy died of anthrax in the remote Yamal Peninsula, and 20 other infected people were treated and survived. Anthrax hadn't been seen in the region for 75 year
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
CIA 'torture' psychologists to stand trial
08-08-2017
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https://www.yahoo.com, Paul HANDLEY
Two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post-9/11 detainee interrogation program will stand trial in September for promoting the use of torture methods like water-boarding, starvation and chaining prisoners in extreme stress positions.
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