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Date Sent: 2018-10-02
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, October 2, 2018 |
North, South Korea begin removing landmines along fortified border
Google's new quantum processor could soon outperform classic supercomputers -- First direct brain-to-brain "social network" is a true meeting of minds -- Astronomer Warns: Earth Could Be Crushed By Particle Accelerator -- Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google & Youtube Appoint Themselves As Official Internet Censor -- Doug Casey on Why Somalia Shouldn't Have an Army -- The Daily: Blockchain.com Launches OTC Trading Desk, Shapeshift Relaunches Coincap -- Snap: India's Nationwide Biometric ID Database Ruled Constitutional -- Why People Should Stop Appealing to Their Identity to Win Arguments -- The Awards I Never Got -- Syrian FM: Victory Is Near, US Must Leave -- Iranian FM: Agreement to Sell Oil to EU Close, Despite US Threats -- Epidemic of empty stores threatens more metro Detroit shopping malls -- First Lady Melania Trump Heading to Africa on First Solo Trip -- GE's $500,000,000,000 Market Wipeout Is Like Erasing Facebook -- Boeing and Rolls-Royce back British hypersonic spaceplane venture -- Scaled Completes First Flight of Experimental Aircraft, Model 401 -- Dream Chaser spaceplane successfully completes glide flight and landing -- Hybrid foam combines strengths of wood and metal -- Self-driving tractor that could be the future of farming: Hydrogen-powered vehicles... -- How robofurniture could revolutionize life in shoebox apartments... -- Asia Argento vows 'revenge' on her former friend and MeToo partner Rose McGowan... -- Brett Kavanaugh was 'a frequent and heavy drinker' at Yale who was 'belligerent and aggr -- Brett Kavanaugh denies ANOTHER sex assault claim ?" this time by a 'Jane Doe'... -- Georgetown Prof: White GOP Senators In Kavanaugh Hearing "Deserve Miserable Deaths" -- "Brett Has Not Told The Truth" - Kavanaugh College Friend Details "Violent, Drunken B -- 'Sunday Night Football' Ratings Hit Season Low As Stadiums Fail To Fill Seats -- The Constitutional Reasons to Oppose Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court -- Martin Armstrong Warns Kavanaugh Is The Tipping Point For Decline & Fall Of America -- Interview 1392 ?" James Corbett on the Truth About the Trade War --
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News Link • Korea/North Korea
North, South Korea begin removing landmines along fortified border
10-01-2018
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www.reuters.com, Joori Roh, Josh Smith
Troops from North and South Korea began removing some landmines along their heavily fortified border on Monday, the South's defense ministry said, in a pact to reduce tension and build trust on the divided peninsula.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Google's new quantum processor could soon outperform classic supercomputers
10-01-2018
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https://newatlas.com, Michael Irving
With the quantum computing race heating up between Google, IBM and Intel, it feels like we're hurtling towards quantum supremacy, that milestone when a quantum computer outperforms a classical one for the first time.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
First direct brain-to-brain "social network" is a true meeting of minds
10-01-2018
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https://newatlas.com, by Michael Irving
The internet has made it easy for groups to collaborate from pretty much anywhere, but this experimental brain-to-brain "social network" could be the beginning of a whole new ballgame.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Astronomer Warns: Earth Could Be Crushed By Particle Accelerator
10-01-2018
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http://www.shtfplan.com, by Mac Slavo
Martin Rees, a well-respected British cosmologist, has a warning about particle accelerators. There is a small, but very real possibility of disaster. Rees claims Earth could be crushed to the size of a soccer field by particle accelerators.
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News Link • Censorship
Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google & Youtube Appoint Themselves As Official Internet Censor
10-01-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Richard Enos
If you are reading this, that means that articles that speak against the activities of the Anti-Defamation League are not being automatically scrubbed from the internet.
Yet.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Doug Casey on Why Somalia Shouldn't Have an Army
10-01-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Justin Spittler
Somalia is a country on Africa's east coast. Most people don't know anything about the place, other than that it's infamous for pirates.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The Daily: Blockchain.com Launches OTC Trading Desk, Shapeshift Relaunches Coincap
10-01-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
Wallet provider Blockchain.com has created an OTC trading desk as part of its efforts to cater to institutional investors. Also in The Daily this Sunday, Shapeshift launches the redesigned Coincap tracker, Kraken lists Cardano and Qtum, and Compound
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News Link • India
Snap: India's Nationwide Biometric ID Database Ruled Constitutional
10-01-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news, BY: NICHOLAS WEST
As the march toward a cashless (and privacy-less) society accelerates forward, a new high watermark has been reached.
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News Link • General Opinion
Why People Should Stop Appealing to Their Identity to Win Arguments
10-01-2018
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https://fee.org, by Bryan Caplan
When you invoke appeals to identity, you are undermining the truth-seeking mission of the conversation, and the reasonable response is to discount what you say.
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News Link • Activism
The Awards I Never Got
10-01-2018
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https://original.antiwar.com, by Justin Raimondo
-- except the only ones worth getting
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News Link • Syria
Syrian FM: Victory Is Near, US Must Leave
10-01-2018
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https://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Situation growing more stable, no need for US
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News Link • Iran
Iranian FM: Agreement to Sell Oil to EU Close, Despite US Threats
10-01-2018
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https://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Deal would be a major step toward breaking US sanctions
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News Link • Michigan
Epidemic of empty stores threatens more metro Detroit shopping malls
10-01-2018
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https://www.freep.com, JC Reindl
An epidemic of shuttered storefronts and liquidating department stores continues to plague many of metro Detroit's enclosed shopping malls, threatening the existence of some once-thriving properties that couldn't keep up with retail changes or simply
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News Link • Trump Administration
First Lady Melania Trump Heading to Africa on First Solo Trip
10-01-2018
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https://www.youtube.com, Inside Edition
Melania Trump's first solo trip abroad as first lady will take her to Africa.
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News Link • Stock Market
GE's $500,000,000,000 Market Wipeout Is Like Erasing Facebook
10-01-2018
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https://www.bloombergquint.com, Richard Clough
On August 28, 2000, Apple's hottest product was a candy-colored computer, Donald Trump was a New York real estate mogul and General Electric Co. was worth some $600 billion.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Boeing and Rolls-Royce back British hypersonic spaceplane venture
10-01-2018
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https://newatlas.com, David Szondy
Hypersonic travel, and maybe even a new type of orbital launcher, has come closer to reality after Boeing and Rolls-Royce today announced substantial investments in the British advanced propulsion systems company Reaction Engines Limited (REL).
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Scaled Completes First Flight of Experimental Aircraft, Model 401
10-01-2018
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http://www.scaled.com,
Scaled Composites is proud to announce the rollout and first flight of its most recent project, experimental aircraft Model 401.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Dream Chaser spaceplane successfully completes glide flight and landing
10-01-2018
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https://newatlas.com, Rich Haridy
Four years ago, the Dream Chaser's first glide and landing test ended in a crash after its landing gear failed to deploy correctly. Since then, the reusable spaceplane has undergone a complete refurbishment and finally achieved its first successful f
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hybrid foam combines strengths of wood and metal
10-01-2018
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https://newatlas.com, by Ben Coxworth
Back in 2014, we heard how scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research had developed a wood-based foam that could be used as eco-friendly insulation. Now, they've combined it with metal to create a composite that has a much wider
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News Link • Agriculture
Self-driving tractor that could be the future of farming: Hydrogen-powered vehicles...
10-01-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by TIM STICKINGS
Self-driving tractors which are powered by hydrogen and controlled by a mobile app could plough the world's farmland under one Italian designer's plans.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How robofurniture could revolutionize life in shoebox apartments...
10-01-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by KHALEDA RAHMAN
How robofurniture could revolutionize life in shoebox apartments: The $10,000 gadget that can transform size of living spaces with an app or voice command (and makes cleaning easier too)
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Asia Argento vows 'revenge' on her former friend and MeToo partner Rose McGowan...
10-01-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk
Asia Argento vows 'revenge' on her former friend and MeToo partner Rose McGowan with bold new bloody dagger tattoo and tells her 'Bye bye' as their feud over Jimmy Bennett sex assault allegations deepens
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News Link • Senate/Senators
Brett Kavanaugh was 'a frequent and heavy drinker' at Yale who was 'belligerent and aggr
10-01-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by EMILY CRANE
A former Yale University classmate of Brett Kavanaugh's described him as 'a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker' at college.
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News Link • Investigations
Brett Kavanaugh denies ANOTHER sex assault claim â€" this time by a 'Jane Doe'...
10-01-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by DAVID MARTOSKO
An anonymous woman accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of repeatedly raping her while they were both teenagers, it emerged Monday.
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News Link • General Opinion
Georgetown Prof: White GOP Senators In Kavanaugh Hearing "Deserve Miserable Deaths"
10-01-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Abigail Marone
Georgetown University Distinguished Associate Professor Christine Fair tweeted that white Republican senators in the Brett Kavanaugh hearing deserve to die.
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News Link • FBI
"Brett Has Not Told The Truth" - Kavanaugh College Friend Details "Violent, Drunken B
10-01-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com
Update: Here is the full text of Ludington's statement:
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
'Sunday Night Football' Ratings Hit Season Low As Stadiums Fail To Fill Seats
10-01-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The NFL suffered another blow this weekend after ratings for its most watched program, Sunday Night Football, hit a season low according to Deadline - thought metered market results are up year-over-year 12% after last year's SNF aired one day after
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News Link • General Opinion
Martin Armstrong Warns Kavanaugh Is The Tipping Point For Decline & Fall Of America
10-01-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Martin Armstrong
Kavanaugh's hearing exposed the serious fact that the US Congress has become too polarized to even govern...
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News Link • Trump Administration
Interview 1392 â€" James Corbett on the Truth About the Trade War
10-01-2018
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https://www.corbettreport.com, Corbett
With yet another Fed rate hike having taken place recently, and with Jerome Powell signaling aggressive rate hikes going forward, analysts and investors are wondering if, and when, the American economy is going to start feeling the pain. People are s
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News Link • Transportation
Bill Ford Hints At Future Pure Electric Ford F-150
10-01-2018
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https://insideevs.com, STEVEN LOVEDAY
Hmm … will it truly come to be? Perhaps, but it won't be this Rivian electric truck disguised as an F-150.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Goodbye Nafta, Hello USMCA, Trump's "Wonderful New Trade Deal"
10-01-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Out with the old, in with the new...
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News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
How the American Media Was Destroyed
10-01-2018
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
In my September 24 column, "Truth Is Evaporating Before Our Eyes," https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/24/truth-is-evaporating-before-our-eyes/ I used the destruction of the CBS news team that broke the Abu Ghraib story and the story of Pres
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News Link • Transportation
Perils of the Part-Time Driver
10-01-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Peters
Big Brother has been riding shotgun for years, but he's never been able to actually watch what we do in our cars.
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News Link • India
Prehistoric art hints at lost Indian civilisation
10-01-2018
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https://www.bbc.com
The discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India's western state of Maharashtra has greatly excited archaeologists who believe they hold clues to a previously unknown civilisation, BBC Marathi's Mayuresh Konnur re
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Netflix to let viewers pick how TV episodes and movies will end - Bloomberg
10-01-2018
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https://www.yahoo.com, Reuters
Streaming giant Netflix Inc will now allow users to choose how a TV episode or movie will end as it pushes further into Interactive TV, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump says trade pact with Canada, Mexico will support U.S. jobs
10-01-2018
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https://www.reuters.com, Steve Holland
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said a new free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico would support hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs, marking it as a victory in his push to reshape the lines of global commerce.
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News Link • Senate/Senators
'He was clearly aggressive and angry'...
10-01-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by EMILY CRANE
'He was clearly aggressive and angry': Senators Flake and Coons reveal how Kavanaugh's performance led to their bipartisan demand for a new FBI probe into sex allegations - and say his nomination is OVER if he lied to them
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News Link • Israel
Ron Unz For President
10-01-2018
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paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
This is from Ron Unz, a fearless commentator: https://forward.com/series/salary-survey/2015/jonathan-greenblatt/anti-defamation-league/
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Musk Says Tesla Close to Profitability, Former SEC Official Calls Musk "Numbnut"
10-01-2018
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish Shedlock
The SEC settled with Elon Musk on Saturday. Many questions remain. Profitability moves to the forefront.
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News Link • Korea/North Korea
Let Americans Visit North Korea Now
10-01-2018
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www.theamericanconservative.com, By Doug Bandow
Kim has expressed his desire for contact with Americans. The Trump administration should give it to him.
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News Link • United Kingdom
UK sending 800 troops to Arctic in warning shot to Russia
10-01-2018
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk, Edward Malnick
Britain is to step up its military presence in the Arctic significantly amid concerns about growing Russian aggression "in our back yard", the Defence Secretary reveals today.
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