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Date Sent: 2018-08-13
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, August 14, 2018 |
Tensions Flare as Hackers Root Out Flaws in Voting Machines
More than 100 newspapers will publish editorials decrying Trump's anti-press rhetoric -- Infowars Website Traffic Explodes After Silicon Valley Blacklists Alex Jones Empire -- The Law As Weapon -- Rand Paul Stands Up for Peace -- 'They be pirates' -- ANTIFA VOWS "BULLETS" FOR POLITICAL ENEMIES; MEDIA IGNORES THREAT -- AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not -- Cost of living rises at fastest rate in decade -- Demo of two-qubit fault-tolerant universal holonomic quantum gates... -- 90% chance of no birth restrictions in China in 2019 -- US Spending On Interest Hits All Time High As Budget Deficit Soars To $684 Billion -- President Trump: Planned Boycott By Harley-Davidson Owners Is "Great!" -- In Furious Rant Erdogan Lashes Out At Trump: "We See The Game You're Playing, We Dare You** -- Elon Musk had been talking with Saudi Arabia for two years about going private with Tesla -- Nanoparticles can triple the rate of evaporation for solar desalination -- Secret Israeli Report Reveals Armed Drone Killed Four Boys Playing on Gaza Beach in 2014 -- FBI fires Peter Strzok, months after anti-Trump texts revealed -- Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers -- 14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor -- Why other countries are giving China a licence to print money -- 'DO HIM LIKE GADDAFI' -- ANTIFA PROTESTERS CAUGHT ON VIDEO... -- Though "Too Late" Now, Cables From Secret CIA Black Site... -- To Hell with U.S. Jobs, Let's Get Iran! -- Gun Toting Neighbor Prevents Car Jacking -- Latest Sanctions Against Russia Show Trump Not in Control of his Administration -- Dear Democratic Socialists: Entitlements Are Not Rights -- Omarosa secretly recorded John Kelly firing her in the SITUATION ROOM... -- Censorship Purge Signals Imminent False Flag Violence Before Mid-Term Elections... Bigger Than 9/11? -- "Serious Incident" --
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News Link • Censorship
Infowars Website Traffic Explodes After Silicon Valley Blacklists Alex Jones Empire
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Silicon Valley's coordinated purge of all things Infowars from social media has had an unexpected result; website traffic to Infowars.com has soared in the past week, according to Amazon's website ranking service Alexa.
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News Link • Investigations
The Law As Weapon
08-13-2018
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
Robert Mueller is supposed to be investigating Russiagate, which has been shown to be a hoax concocted by former CIA director John Brennan, former FBI director James Comey, and current deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not
08-13-2018
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https://apnews.com, by RYAN NAKASHIMA
Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Japan
Demo of two-qubit fault-tolerant universal holonomic quantum gates...
08-13-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Japases researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room temperature, which will enable the realization of fast and fault-tolerant universal quantum computers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
90% chance of no birth restrictions in China in 2019
08-13-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
He Yanfu told the China Times that there was a 90% chance that a fully liberalized birth policy will be implemented in 2019.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
President Trump: Planned Boycott By Harley-Davidson Owners Is "Great!"
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
President Trump on Sunday morning tweeted that a planned boycott by some Harley-Davidson motorcycle owners is "Great!"
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Trump Administration
In Furious Rant Erdogan Lashes Out At Trump: "We See The Game You're Playing, We Dare You**
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In the wake of the U.S. doubling tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum on Friday which sent the Turkish lira and capital markets into free fall, Erdogan wrote a Friday New York Times op-ed cataloging his grievances and threatening to walk away from t
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Elon Musk had been talking with Saudi Arabia for two years about going private with Tesla
08-13-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Nextbigfuture had speculated that the Saudi sovereign fund would be the source of funding when Elon Musk tweeted about going private with Tesla. Nextbigfuture has been talking about the Sovereign Wealth funds mobilizing for technology and in particul
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanoparticles can triple the rate of evaporation for solar desalination
08-13-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Tellurium nanoparticles can triple the evaporation rate of solar desalination and can raise the temperature of water from 29° to 85°C within 100 seconds.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Secret Israeli Report Reveals Armed Drone Killed Four Boys Playing on Gaza Beach in 2014
08-13-2018
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https://theintercept.com, Robert Mackey
A confidential report by Israeli military police investigators seen by The Intercept explains how a tragic series of mistakes by air force, naval, and intelligence officers led to an airstrike in which four Palestinian boys playing on a beach in Gaza
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Robert Lee
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News Link • FBI
FBI fires Peter Strzok, months after anti-Trump texts revealed
08-13-2018
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by Judson Berger and Brooke Singman
FBI official Peter Strzok, who played a lead role in both the Russian meddling and Hillary Clinton email probes but became a political lightning rod after the revelation of anti-Trump text messages, has been fired.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Russia
Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers
08-13-2018
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https://www.defenseone.com, by PATRICK TUCKER
In May, the Justice Department told Americans to reboot their routers. But there's more to do -- and NSA says it's up to device makers and the public.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • United States
14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor
08-13-2018
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https://apnews.com, by LISA RATHKE
One of the four Vermont Democrats seeking the party nomination to run for governor in the fall election isn't old enough to vote, let alone drive.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • China
Why other countries are giving China a licence to print money
08-13-2018
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https://www.scmp.com, by Stephen Chen
Chinese state-owned firm winning contracts to print foreign currencies as country seeks to expand global reach and influence
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News Link • United States
'DO HIM LIKE GADDAFI' -- ANTIFA PROTESTERS CAUGHT ON VIDEO...
08-13-2018
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http://dailycaller.com, by
'DO HIM LIKE GADDAFI' -- ANTIFA PROTESTERS CAUGHT ON VIDEO THREATENING TO KILL THE PRESIDENT
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Though "Too Late" Now, Cables From Secret CIA Black Site...
08-13-2018
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https://www.commondreams.org, by Jessica Corbett
Critics say this "detailed account" of the CIA director's role "in horrendous acts of torture" further confirms "that she is totally unfit to lead the agency."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
To Hell with U.S. Jobs, Let's Get Iran!
08-13-2018
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http://www.unz.com, Eric Margolis
President Trump keeps vowing to create more jobs in America. But his actions often speak differently.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Crime
Gun Toting Neighbor Prevents Car Jacking
08-13-2018
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http://gunalerts.com
A man with a concealed carry permit stepped up to help his neighbor when she was confronted by an armed man during an attempted carjacking last week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Latest Sanctions Against Russia Show Trump Not in Control of his Administration
08-13-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By F. Michael Maloof
US President Donald Trump is not in control of his own administration, as evidenced by the latest round of sanctions imposed against Russia for the alleged involvement in the poisoning of the Skripals in the UK in March.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Dear Democratic Socialists: Entitlements Are Not Rights
08-13-2018
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https://fee.org, by Mark J. Perry
The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced, is to force someone else to produce it for him.
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News Link • Government
Omarosa secretly recorded John Kelly firing her in the SITUATION ROOM...
08-13-2018
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by FRANCESCA CHAMBERS and DAVID MARTOSKO
Omarosa secretly recorded John Kelly firing her in the SITUATION ROOM and claims she heard the rumored tape of the president saying the n-word after she finished her book
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News Link • False Flag Operations
Censorship Purge Signals Imminent False Flag Violence Before Mid-Term Elections... Bigger Than 9/11?
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Mike Adams
For the last two months, I've been warning about the rising risk of a major false flag attack taking place before the mid-term elections.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • NATO
"Serious Incident"
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Unfolds As NATO Jet Accidentally Launches Secret Missile Near Russian Border
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Inside the 'Hunger Games' of Porn: A Reality Series Where Adult Stars Compete for Crypto
08-13-2018
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https://www.thedailybeast.com
In anticipation of the first annual 'PornHub Awards,' the internet giant rolled out a competitive reality series where six stars compete for the championship title and prize money.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Exposing Media Censorship While The Mainstream Cries Wolf!
08-13-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
In this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gives you the latest breaking news on the medias attempt to silence certain voices while at the same time saying it is they who are being attacked by the current presidential administration and they are th
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Senate/Senators
Report: Rand Paul Is Single-handedly Preventing War With Iran
08-13-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com
Senator is the only real peace maker in Washington
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Bloomberg Refutes Reuters, Says Saudis "In Talks" To Invest In Tesla Buyout
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
What a difference 24 hours makes: just yesterday, Reuters reported citing "two sources familiar with the matter", that Saudi Arabia's Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF) which recently acquired a stake just shy of 5% in Tesla in
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Infowars Website Traffic Explodes After Silicon Valley Blacklists Alex Jones Empire
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com
Silicon Valley's coordinated purge of all things Infowars from social media has had an unexpected result; website traffic to Infowars.com has soared in the past week, according to Amazon's website ranking service Alexa.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Sanctions
Lenin Updated: "Turn The Globalist War Into A Race War"
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by James Georges Jatra
It's déjà vu all over again.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Free-Speech Monopoly - The Game Is Rigged
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Ben Garrison
In early America many cities had 'town squares' in which citizens could stand on soapboxes and shout out various messages. Our First Amendment protects such speech.
The Internet is today's town square. The soapboxes are social media.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Free Speech Icon Noam Chomsky Says Big Tech Was Wrong to Ban Infowars
08-13-2018
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prisonplanet.com by Paul Joseph Watson
MIT professor defends Alex Jones' right to be offensive
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Russia Finance Minister: We May Abandon Dollar In Oil Trade As It Is Becoming "Too Risky"
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
One month ago, the bond market and political pundits did a double take when according to the latest Treasury International Capital report, Russia had liquidated virtually all of its US Treasury holdings, selling off the bulk of its US government bond
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United States
10 Numbers That Prove That America's Current Financial Condition Is A Horror Show
08-13-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com
America's long-term "balance sheet numbers" just continue to get progressively worse.
Unfortunately, since the stock market has been soaring and the GDP numbers look okay, most Americans assume that the U.S. economy is doing just fine. But
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Boeing believes mach 5 hypersonic passenger planes might have better economics than mach 2 ...
08-13-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian Wang
Boeing has selected mach 5.0 as the top speed for a hypersonic passenger jet because that greatly simplifies the structural materials and the propulsion. Standard titanium alloys used in aircraft and jet engines today are strong enough to survive the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Slams Sessions: "He Is Scared Stiff And Missing In Action"
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Ten days after Trump lashed out at Jeff Sessions, when on August 1st he demanded the Attorney General "should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now",
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil
Will Myanmar Become A Conduit For Iranian Crude Into China?
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Eric Yep
On June 1, sometime between the US withdrawal from the JCPOA in early May, and its demand in late June that Asian buyers fully halt Iranian oil purchases, PetroChina snuck in a shipment of Iranian crude through Myanmar to its Yunnan Petrochemical ref
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sanctions
Iran Sanctions Fallout:
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
China Takes Over French Share In Giant Iran Gas Project
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Crypto Bubble Unwind Images: Fast in Altcoins, Slower in Bitcoin
08-13-2018
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https://moneymaven.io
Ripple, the number three cryptocurrency is down 89% from the top, Ethereum 76%, Bitcoin 67%.
The cryptocurrency bubble is unwinding rapidly from the bottom up. Bitcoin is holding up the best.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Anonymous
QAnon August 12 - We Are Under Attack
08-13-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
During the last week, Qanon and team have come under even more attack.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • 3D Printing
How 3D Printing is Revolutionizing the Housing
08-13-2018
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https://www.thedailybell.com
The housing industry is like a roller coaster.
The housing crash left houses empty and people homeless. Some neighborhoods are still littered with empty and decaying homes, some having stood empty going on 10 years now.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Sanctions
The Self-Imposed Impotence of the Russian and Chinese Governments
08-13-2018
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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org by Paul Craig Rob
The Russian and Chinese governments are puzzling. They hold all the cards in the sanction wars and sit there with no wits whatsoever as to how to play them.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Musk points to Saudis for 'funding secured' tweet in taking Tesla private
08-13-2018
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https://www.cnbc.com
Elon Musk says his claim last week that the necessary funding had been secured was based on repeated and ongoing conversations with the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund.
The take-private tweet may have violated an SEC rule about public anno
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • General Opinion
A White, Trump-Voting Charlottesville Survivor Reflects On ---
08-13-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Charlottesville Survi
---"An Entire Failed System Propped Up On Lies"
It's surreal to have lived through an event that is even now being mythologized.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
When Mainstream Economics Was Wrong, Mark Thornton Was Right
08-13-2018
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By Tom Woods Mises.org
[Foreword to Mark Thornton's new book (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2018).]
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the economics profession suffered a blow to what reputation it had. But unlike most of his colleagues, Mark Thornton was vi
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News Link • Asia
Even with shift to electric cars Asia's economies will need more oil
08-13-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com
China and Asia have had the economic growth for the last few decades and the growth in oil demand.
US fracking has supplied 6 million barrels per day of the total 10.5 million barrels per day of increased oil demand. Almost all of the new oil dema
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Weekend Tweets: Keynesian Time Bombs, Emerging Markets, Turkey, Black Swans
08-13-2018
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https://moneymaven.io
Here's an array of interesting Tweets I compiled this weekend
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Chicago's Violence Is Out-of-Control: Who's At Fault?
08-13-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
Violence in Chicago has been a problem for some time now. But it's now out-of-control with 74 people shot last week! The people committing the violence are responsible, but how has government helped to foster such an environment?
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News Link • Transportation
Changing Oil Too Soon - or Too Late?
08-13-2018
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By Eric Peters Eric Peters Autos
Knowing when it's time to change the oil in a regularly driven car is easy - the car's manufacturer provides specific time and mileage intervals. They are right there in your owner's manual. In addition to this, many cars built since the
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
The Flourishing Business
of Fake YouTube Views
08-13-2018
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/11/tec
Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos'
popularity and making the social media giant vulnerable to manipulation.
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