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Date Sent: 2017-09-28
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, September 28, 2017 |
Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91
Trump to release secret JFK assassination info? -- The FBI Just Stopped Publishing Data On America's Ridiculous Marijuana Arrest Rates -- WATCH: Cop Attacks Road Workers So They Take Him Down in Citizen's Arrest -- Nerve Implant 'Restores Consciousness' To Man In Persistent Vegetative State -- What Can Be Done? -- Who Cares? Headline Debates are Wasting Your Time -- The Plimp is a plane-blimp mashup that promises safe air transport -- Sunday's Catalonia Independence Referendum -- Interpol Backs Palestinian Statehood -- Economic Winter Is Coming... -- MSNBC's Chuck Todd Proves He's Complete Idiot -- Bitcoin Cash Gains More Infrastructure In the Midst of Segwit2x Drama -- Obama Now Selling Himself on Wall Street - #NewWorldNextWeek -- North Korea Claims 5 Million New Soldiers Enlisted Ahead Of "Imminent Provocation" -- The Atlantic Council: 'Debates' Between People Who Hate Russia & People Who Really Hate Russ -- FBI Director Warns Terrorist Groups Could Soon Launch Drone Attack Against U.S. -- The Weird Odyssey of Trump's Travel Bans -- America's DACA Nightmare Caused by Obama & Congress -- Don't wait for an ambulance if you get shot or stabbed: You are less likely to die if ... -- Airlines Suffer Worldwide Delays After Global Booking System Fails -- This 31-Year-Old Is Trying to Revolutionize Cryptocurrency Trading -- Trump Waives Jones Act to Speed Up Aid Shipments to Puerto Rico -- Ron Paul Issues Dire Warning: 'Somebody's Going to Use a False Flag to Start War' -- Whole Foods pushes TOXIC blood-clotting canola oil... -- Do You Want To Help Drain The Swamp? -- Nexus Conference Stream 9/22/17 Pt. 1 -- $2 million competition aims to make jetpacks a reality by 2019 -- Proterra claims world record... -- Watch A Guy Fly Around In A Martin Jetpack --
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News Link • Death
Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91
09-28-2017
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https://www.nytimes.com
Hugh Hefner, who created Playboy magazine, squiring attractive young women (and sometimes marrying them) well into his 80s -- died on Wednesday at his home, the Playboy Mansion near Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 91.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump to release secret JFK assassination info?
09-28-2017
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https://thehornnews.com
Investigators have long speculated that the so-called "Deep State" is withholding critical information regarding the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy -- and on Oct. 26 they may get one step closer to finding out the truth, thank
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • FBI
The FBI Just Stopped Publishing Data On America's Ridiculous Marijuana Arrest Rates
09-28-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com
According to the latest FBI data, drug arrests in the United States increased from 2015 to 2016. Though the federal agency used to provide breakdowns on the details of these arrests in its annual "Crime in the United States" report - including wh
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
WATCH: Cop Attacks Road Workers So They Take Him Down in Citizen's Arrest
09-28-2017
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com
Louisville, KY -- A Kentucky State Trooper on a power trip allegedly got violent with a road construction crew over the weekend. However, as the video of incident shows, unlike most scenarios with cops on power trips, it was the Trooper who got take
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nerve Implant 'Restores Consciousness' To Man In Persistent Vegetative State
09-28-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
Stimulation of the vagus nerve allows patient who had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years to track objects with his eyes and respond to simple requests
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • United States
What Can Be Done?
09-28-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
Despite clear evidence that Washington has chosen the path to conflict with Russia and China, European governments have not objected. Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics even seem to demand more conflict or a quicker path to conflict. The European peopl
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Who Cares? Headline Debates are Wasting Your Time
09-28-2017
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http://www.thedailybell.com
NFL players are kneeling, standing, sitting maybe, and probably laying down at times. Perhaps they are protesting police killings, or maybe they hate America, and some of them are very patriotic and do or do not support Donald Trump. I don't know.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drones
The Plimp is a plane-blimp mashup that promises safe air transport
09-28-2017
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https://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
The Plimp uses a blimp-like body to prevent hard crashes and a plane-like body to maneuver through the sky.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Economic Winter Is Coming...
09-27-2017
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http://news.goldseek.com, By: Chris Mullen
I had the opportunity to attend much of the first two days of a 3-day cryptocurrency/blockchain conference in Aspen late last week.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSNBC's Chuck Todd Proves He's Complete Idiot
09-28-2017
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https://www.youtube.com
MSNBC's Chuck Todd shows he knows less than nothing about the inalienable rights we Americans enjoy, given to us by our Creator.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash Gains More Infrastructure In the Midst of Segwit2x Drama
09-28-2017
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https://news.bitcoin.com
This week the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem is seeing further infrastructure growth as wallet providers, merchants and exchanges continue to announce BCH support. The entire BCH network is seeing improvements every day, while the legacy chain and Segw
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Corbett Report
Obama Now Selling Himself on Wall Street - #NewWorldNextWeek
09-28-2017
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https://www.youtube.com
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: China Conducts First Ever Live Fire Military Drill In
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Korea/North Korea
North Korea Claims 5 Million New Soldiers Enlisted Ahead Of "Imminent Provocation"
09-28-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com
In what is probably a "slightly" exaggerated figure, North Korea claimed on Thursday that some 4.7 million students and workers have volunteered to join or re-enlist in the North Korean army since Kim Jong Un called Donald Trump a "dotard" and vo
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Think Tanks
The Atlantic Council: 'Debates' Between People Who Hate Russia & People Who Really Hate Russ
09-28-2017
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org
Welcome to the Atlantic Council. A think tank which isn't given to introspection and which ultimately amounts to NATO's propaganda arm. This week, I endured an Atlantic Council echo-chamber to spare you the bother.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • FBI
FBI Director Warns Terrorist Groups Could Soon Launch Drone Attack Against U.S.
09-28-2017
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http://freebeacon.com
FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Congress on Wednesday that terrorist groups may soon have the capacity to carry out drone attacks against the United States and described the threat as imminent.
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Weird Odyssey of Trump's Travel Bans
09-28-2017
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
The weird odyssey of President Donald Trump's travel bans continues. The original ban, signed as an executive order Jan. 27, barred absolutely all immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The countries had actually been ch
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Don't wait for an ambulance if you get shot or stabbed: You are less likely to die if ...
09-28-2017
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https://www.naturalnews.com
a friend takes you to the hospital...(Natural News) It is important to call for the ambulance in medical emergencies, but new research suggests that calling a friend, an Uber, or the police to take you to the hospital is better if you have been stabb
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airlines Suffer Worldwide Delays After Global Booking System Fails
09-28-2017
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https://www.bloomberg.com
Airlines worldwide were forced to delay flights Thursday as a global flight-bookings system operated by Amadeus IT Group SA suffered what the company called a "network issue."
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Reported by:
Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
This 31-Year-Old Is Trying to Revolutionize Cryptocurrency Trading
09-28-2017
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https://www.bloomberg.com
Michael Oved helped Virtu Financial Inc. become the most consistently profitable market maker in the history of electronic trading. Now he has his sights set on revolutionizing how digital currency exchanges operate.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Waives Jones Act to Speed Up Aid Shipments to Puerto Rico
09-28-2017
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https://www.bloomberg.com
President Donald Trump ordered the Jones Act to be waived for shipments to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico immediately at the request of Governor Ricardo Rossello, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Issues Dire Warning: 'Somebody's Going to Use a False Flag to Start War'
09-28-2017
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com, By Matt Agorist
Somebody's going to use a false flag and someone is going to shoot down an airplane, just so this war gets started," said the former Congressman.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Whole Foods pushes TOXIC blood-clotting canola oil...
09-28-2017
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https://www.naturalnews.com, by: S.D. Wells
The slogan on the Whole Foods website says, "Eat real food." Sure. Then at the top of the home page they claim, "We're growing something good." Really?
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Do You Want To Help Drain The Swamp?
09-28-2017
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https://www.oathkeepers.org, by Shorty Dawkins
One of President Trump's campaign promises was to "Drain the Swamp". That call rang true with many Americans.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
$2 million competition aims to make jetpacks a reality by 2019
09-28-2017
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https://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
GoFly dreams of a personal flying machine with range of 20 miles
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Proterra claims world record...
09-28-2017
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http://www.latimes.com, by Russ MitchellRuss Mitch
Proterra, the electric bus company based in Burlingame, Calif., with an assembly plant in City of Industry, claimed a world record for electric vehicle range on Tuesday.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics
Mark Thornton: Trump's Deal With Dems Increases His Power over GOP
09-28-2017
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arclein
As Thornton notes, the debt-ceiling deal only extends the status quo, so is not a really a big win for the Democrats. It is, however, a win for Trump because it illustrates to the GOP leadership in Congress that Trump does not need them as much as th
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Wheel of Giants
09-28-2017
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arclein
Sitting in plain sight but unnoticed for centuries, an unusual megalith near the Sea of Galilee has stumped experts. An ancient monument comprised of enormous stone circles dating to the Early Bronze Age remains a mystery to this day. No one knows wh
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Caltrops
09-28-2017
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arclein
There is a cunning and deadly device that used by armies in the past, and up to the present day. It's a weapon mostly overlooked but is yet brilliantly effective?"the caltrop. The caltrop (or calthrop) is a crude, cheap, iron ball with spikes. It
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robert klein
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News Link • History
The last surviving sea silk seamstress
09-28-2017
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arclein
Using the moonlight to guide her, Vigo descends up to 15m below the surface to reach a series of secluded underwater coves and grassy lagoons that the women in her family have kept secret for the past 24 generations. She then uses a tiny scalpel to c
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Blockchain
NEXUS EARTH CONFERENCE WRAP UP
09-27-2017
Nexus. A connection or series of connections linking two or more things.
The Nexus conference was a gathering of blockchain enthusiast, libertarians, anarchists and Peter Schiff.
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Reported by:
Tim Picciott
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