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Date Sent: 2018-03-16
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, March 17, 2018 |
Vietnam marks 50 years since My Lai massacre...
Parents pull daughter, 7, out of school after she portrayed a racist character in a play... -- Ohio Student Suspended for Refusing to Leave Classroom During Gun Control Walkout -- Mike Pompeo -- Donald Trump's Authoritarian Opponents -- Just for the record . . . -- Enough already! FOURTH nor'easter could pummel Tri-State area early next week... -- EU Preparing To Unleash First-Ever Regulations Targeting Search Engines -- Comparing The 25 Most Notable Cryptocurrencies -- Amazon Japan Raided For Antitrust Violations, "Cooperation Payments" -- Maidan Icon Faces Arrest For Admitting Current Ukraine Officials... -- They Remain Unreconstructed: Defiance Still Alive in Mountain South by John Meyers -- WASHINGTON BREAKS OUT THE "JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS"... -- 22 Old Weather Proverbs That Are Actually True -- Should Student Marchers Walk Out of School and Not Come Back? -- Republican Lawmaker Pushes Tax-Per-Mile To Replace Gas Tax -- British Government Is Trying to Censor the Internet by the Back Door -- Venezuela's 4,000% Hyperinflation 'Breaks' Cash-Weighing Scales -- The Illusion Of Free Trade -- Blain: "10 Years Ago Bear Stearns Collapsed;" -- From Switzerland To Singapore: The World's Top Tax Havens -- Peter Thiel Says Silicon Valley A 'Totalitarian Place' -- -- Housing Starts, Permits Plunge In February As Rental Units Crash -- Rattlesnake venom extract helps strike back against superbugs -- Crash Course on Who Controls the CIA, US State Department, and Donald Trump -- Trump Suggests Withdrawing Troops From South Korea Over Trade Issues -- They don't make baby poop like they did in 1926, that's for sure. -- The Population Bomb Has Been Defused -- Are 'Novichok' Poisons Real? - May's Claims Fall Apart -- Theoretical progress on producing and storing several grams of antimatter per year --
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News Link • United States
Vietnam marks 50 years since My Lai massacre...
03-16-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Reuters and Ap
Vietnam has marked 50 years since the horrific My Lai massacre in a memorial ceremony at the site of the killings.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Parents pull daughter, 7, out of school after she portrayed a racist character in a play...
03-16-2018
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By ANNETA KONSTANTINIDES
Parents pull daughter, 7, out of school after she portrayed a racist character in a play for the class - where she was the only white student - and told a black peer 'Go home, you don't belong here!'
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Ohio Student Suspended for Refusing to Leave Classroom During Gun Control Walkout
03-16-2018
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https://ijr.com, JASON HOWERTON
A high school student in Hilliard, Ohio, didn't want to pick sides in the contentious gun debate surrounding Wednesday's "National Walkout," so he stayed in class instead of joining the largely anti-gun protest or an alternative "study hall
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Mike Pompeo
03-16-2018
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https://en.wikipedia.org,
Michael Richard Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician and businessman. He is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and has been since January 23, 2017, following his nomination by President Donald Trump.
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Feature Article • Trump Administration
Donald Trump's Authoritarian Opponents
Jim Bovard
President Trump has said and done many things to appall the friends of freedom. From Trump's pro-torture comments to his praise of police brutality to his cruise-missile barrage against Syria to his threat to annihilate North Korea, there are ample
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News Link • General Opinion
Just for the record . . .
03-16-2018
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vinsuprynowicz.com by Vin Suprynowicz
A quick Internet search shows The New York Times, CNN -- most of the usual suspects --
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Enough already! FOURTH nor'easter could pummel Tri-State area early next week...
03-16-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co, By STEPHANIE HANEY
Enough already! FOURTH nor'easter could pummel Tri-State area early next week to coincide with first day of spring
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News Link • European Union
EU Preparing To Unleash First-Ever Regulations Targeting Search Engines
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Roughly nine months after Google's parent company Alphabet was slapped with a 2.4 billion euro fine for "abusing its dominance in search," Brussels bureaucrats are reportedly preparing to take things a step further and unleash Europe-wide regulations
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News Link • Currencies
Comparing The 25 Most Notable Cryptocurrencies
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Since garnering more mainstream attention, the rise of Bitcoin has been debated openly by government officials, financial institutions, and mass media outlets. A segment on Bitcoin was even recently broadcast to millions of viewers on the popular The
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News Link • Japan
Amazon Japan Raided For Antitrust Violations, "Cooperation Payments"
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
There was a time when the phrase "cooperation payments" evoked images of burly, muscle-bound goons, walking around town, sometimes armed with a baseball bat but usually relying only on their reputation of being able to extract cold hard cash from loc
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News Link • Ukraine
Maidan Icon Faces Arrest For Admitting Current Ukraine Officials...
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Maidan Icon Faces Arrest For Admitting Current Ukraine Officials "Led Snipers To Central Kiev"
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
They Remain Unreconstructed: Defiance Still Alive in Mountain South by John Meyers
03-16-2018
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http://zerogov.com, by Bill
It caught my attention as I seldom peruse the various political rags and news sites. I consider them complete wastes of time filled with Stalinist (or fascist depending on the source) political drivel, progressive mentality and centrist statism of th
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
22 Old Weather Proverbs That Are Actually True
03-16-2018
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https://www.artofmanliness.com, Jeremy Anderberg
When you really think about it, the weather impacts our decisions every single day. What we wear, when we leave for our morning commute, the chores we do, the hobbies we partake in, the family activities we plan. And on and on the list goes of how ou
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News Link • United States
Republican Lawmaker Pushes Tax-Per-Mile To Replace Gas Tax
03-16-2018
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https://pjmedia.com, BY TOM KNIGHTON
Americans love their cars. The United States has one of the highest car ownership rates per capita in the world.
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News Link • Censorship
British Government Is Trying to Censor the Internet by the Back Door
03-16-2018
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http://politicalpub.net, by Matthew Morgan
The Times reported that government minister; Matt Hancock is pushing for all social media websites to verify the age of anyone using their services.
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News Link • Venezuela
Venezuela's 4,000% Hyperinflation 'Breaks' Cash-Weighing Scales
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Mired in a brutal economic collapse, Venezuela refuses to publish basic statistics.
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News Link • Free Trade
The Illusion Of Free Trade
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Valentin Schmid
The current trading system was never free; Trump's tariffs merely change who gets what...
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News Link • World News
From Switzerland To Singapore: The World's Top Tax Havens
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Charles Benavidez
The UK-based Tax Justice Network's new Financial Secrecy Index estimates that the ultra-wealthy are hiding up to $32 trillion in tax havens around the world, and while Switzerland gets the top spot on the new list, the U.S. is a not-so-distant seco
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News Link • Housing
Housing Starts, Permits Plunge In February As Rental Units Crash
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Amid two months of dismal housing sales data, and after spiking in January, starts and permits just plunged in February, driven by a collapse in multi-family unit data.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rattlesnake venom extract helps strike back against superbugs
03-16-2018
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https://newatlas.com, Michael Irving
With bacteria becoming ever more resistant to our best antibiotics, scientists are searching high and low for new ones in nature.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Crash Course on Who Controls the CIA, US State Department, and Donald Trump
03-16-2018
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https://needtoknow.news, Jake Morphonios
Political analyst, Jake Morphonios, examines the significance of President Trump's nomination of Mike Pompeo, the present Director of the CIA, to the post of Secretary of State.
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News Link • United Kingdom
Are 'Novichok' Poisons Real? - May's Claims Fall Apart
03-16-2018
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http://www.moonofalabama.org
The British government claims that 'Novichok' poisons, developed 30 years ago in the Soviet Union, affected a British double agent. But such substances may not exist at all.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Theoretical progress on producing and storing several grams of antimatter per year
03-16-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
There was a 2016-2017 Kickstarter for Antimatter fuel production.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA's plan to bat away Earth-bound asteroids
03-16-2018
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https://newatlas.com, David Szondy
Scientists are putting some serious thought into how we might protect the Earth from potential asteroid impacts
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Hyundai Kite â€" Dune Buggy With Electric Propulsion
03-16-2018
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insideevs.com
Hyundai, in partnership with Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), designed a special all-electric dune buggy concept called Hyundai Kite.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
"Where Will It Stop?": Libor Spread Blows Out Beyond Eurocrisis Highs...
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Until two days ago, the critical level for both the Libor-OIS and FRA-OIS spread was the "psychological level" of 50bps.
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News Link • United Kingdom
Emergency Russian Gas Purchases Are Now a Huge Embarrassment for London
03-16-2018
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https://russia-insider.com, Tsvetana Paraskova
UK will now try to stop Russian gas purchases but probably can't
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: Americans Are Broke
03-16-2018
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lewrockwell.com by Peter Schiff
Retail sales unexpectedly fell again in February. It was the third straight monthly drop and the first time the US economy has seen three straight months of declining retail sales since 2012.
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News Link • How To
How to Pick a Lock With a Paper Clip
03-16-2018
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artofmanliness.com
So you know how to pick a lock with a tension wrench and rake. This is an incredibly useful skill, which will allow you to get in your house if you get locked out without having to call a locksmith, and will also allow you to help others who've bec
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News Link • Anthropology
Humans bred with this mysterious species more than once, new study shows
03-16-2018
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https://www.washingtonpost.com, By Ben Guarino
We rarely portray Neanderthals, our close relatives, as telegenic. Museum exhibits give them wild tangles of hair, and Hollywood reduces them to grunting unsophisticates.
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News Link • Syria
Russia accuses West of enabling terrorists in Syria
03-16-2018
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https://www.yahoo.com, Dana Rysmukhamedova
Russia on Friday accused western powers of enabling terrorists in Syria, after meeting with Iran and Turkey for a new round of talks to try and broker an end to the conflict there.
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News Link • Media: Radio
IHeart Files for Bankruptcy With Last-Minute Creditor Deal
03-16-2018
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By Emma Orr and Tiffany Kary
IHeartMedia Inc., the biggest U.S. radio-station owner, filed for bankruptcy with a plan to halve its debt load of more than $20 billion, the legacy of a leveraged buyout that hobbled the company as the digital era spawned new rivals.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Lightning Labs Launches Beta With Twitter CEO Backing
03-16-2018
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https://www.coindesk.com, Leigh Cuen
A version of bitcoin's much-anticipated Lightning Network is finally ready for real users.
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News Link • Internet
5G Rollout Will Unlock Smart Cities, Internet Of Everything
03-16-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news, BY: JAMES MURRAY
Urban planners intend to hardwire 5G into the fabric of smart cities in order to achieve maximum efficiency, environmental sustainability and cost savings. Sensors everywhere will collect real-time data on everything that moves or functions, providin
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News Link • Conspiracies
YouTube Will Counter Alternative Media by Adding a Wikipedia Box to Videos...
03-16-2018
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https://needtoknow.news
YouTube Will Counter Alternative Media by Adding a Wikipedia Box to Videos that Are Deemed a "Conspiracy"
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
The roots of plant intelligence
03-16-2018
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TED.com by Stefano Mancusso
Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
There's no such thing as not voting
03-16-2018
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TED.com by Eric Liu
Many people like to talk about how important voting is, how it's your civic duty and responsibility as an adult. Eric Liu agrees with all that, but he also thinks it's time to bring joy back to the ballot box.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump To Fire McMaster As National Security Adviser, WaPo Reports But White House Denies
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Update: Bloomberg reports that an official has said that Trump has not decided on McMaster's removal. And now Sarah Sanders tweets that she spoke to the president and there are no changes at the NSC...
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Increased Productivity is Eliminating Steel Industry Jobs, Not Imports
03-16-2018
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fee.org by Mark J. Perry
It now takes 85 percent fewer man-hours to produce a ton of steel than it did in 1980.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Crypto Suddenly Spikes Higher As Bitcoin 'Death Cross' Looms
03-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The 50-day moving average is heading precipitously lower to cross the 200-day moving average, which would trigger a so-called 'death cross'...
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Peter Thiel Says Silicon Valley A 'Totalitarian Place' -- Slams 'Political Correctness&#
03-16-2018
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http://dailycaller.com, Justin Caruso
Peter Thiel views Silicon Valley as a "totalitarian place," and he explained why in a Fox Business interview Friday.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Newsbud Exclusive- Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State Means War with Iran.
03-16-2018
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https://www.newsbud.com, Kurt Nimmo
On Tuesday, March 13, it hardly came as a surprise Rex Tillerson was axed and CIA director Mike Pompeo was slipped into the secretary of state slot.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Mining in NY Costs Premium: Bitcoin Headed to $2,800?
03-16-2018
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https://www.themaven.net, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Utilities in New York will now charge extra to mine Bitcoin. In unrelated news, technicals point to a $2800 price.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Social Services Worker Fired, Escorted Out by Cops for Having a Gun Permit--
03-16-2018
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dcclothesline.com by Rachel Blevins
--NOT a GUN
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Jeffrey Singer: Arizona needs legalized needle exchanges
03-16-2018
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tucson.com By Jeffrey A. Singer
Needle exchange programs have a more than 30-year track record of reducing the spread of deadly diseases associated with IV drug use while helping addicts get needed treatment. Arizona needs them, as does the rest of the country.
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News Link • Russia
VLAD'S NEW LAND GRAB Vladimir Putin announces mission to MARS next year ...
03-16-2018
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https://www.thesun.co, By Brittany Vonow
VLAD'S NEW LAND GRAB Vladimir Putin announces mission to MARS next year followed by manned trips in bid to colonise the Red Planet
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News Link • Australia
Australian Official Calls for Emergency Visas for White South African Farmers
03-16-2018
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https://www.nytimes.com, By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
A top Australian official said this week that white farmers from South Africa should be granted emergency visas, saying they needed protection in a "civilized country" amid a debate over redistribution of their lands to black citizens.
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News Link • Philippines
Philippines to withdraw from International Criminal Court
03-16-2018
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cnn.com By Joshua Berlinger
The Philippines says it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), a month after the judicial body started an inquiry into President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial war on drugs.
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News Link • FBI
McCabe faces possible firing days before scheduled retirement: report
03-16-2018
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thehill.com By Rebecca Savransky
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is facing a possible firing days ahead of his scheduled retirement, according to a new report.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Montel Williams says trading opioids for marijuana 'changed my life'
03-16-2018
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sfgate.com By Oscar Pascual
Montel Williams believes that switching to cannabis may have saved his life from prescription opioids.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Humanzees: The Push To Make Human-Chimp Hybrids
03-16-2018
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technocracy.news By John Ellis
Technocrats of all stripes have such a low view of humanity that there are no boundaries in tinkering with genetic restructuring just for the thrill of doing so. This is ultimately based on the religion of Scientism which posits that all truth is exc
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Four Cubesats Snuck into Orbit Without Regulatory Approval, FCC Says
03-16-2018
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Space.com
Concerns about space junk and satellite-launch regulations are swirling after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) alleged that a U.S. company launched four tiny satellites without permission.
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