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Date Sent: 2018-10-18
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, October 18, 2018 |
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros For International Trade
China To Unveil Next-Generation Stealth Bomber In 2019 -- Dollar Crash Imminent: China And Japan Dump U.S. Treasuries -- 10-18-18 -- Angela Keaton - Tim Picciott - Tim Horn -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon EST -- A booster a week? Rocket Lab moves towards mass production with "huge" new facility -- Economic Woes: Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About To Get Worse -- Pepe Escobar: Welcome To The G-20 From Hell -- Denmark And Italy Fight Back Against Open Borders As Populism Swells Across Europe -- High times! Canadians celebrate the first day of legal recreational marijuana... -- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is BACK ONLINE after 7-month communications BAN -- Carter Page suing DNC for defamation over Steele dossier -- VW's Audi Unit Settles Munich Diesel Probe for $926 Million -- Ex-Senate Aide Pleads Guilty to Lying to F.B.I. About Contacts With Reporter -- Why Americans pay too much for health care?: Urine Test -- REPORT: Elizabeth Warren's great-great-great grandfather was a member of the militia... -- Trump gives Saudi Arabia benefit of doubt in journalist's disappearance -- A Local Political News Blogger - Kyrsten Sinema "Treason" allegation by Martha McSally -- GM's data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz -- How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers -- Former Facebook engineer who railed against liberal culture explains why he quit -- Institutional Investors Attempt To Oust Zuckerberg From Facebook, There's Just One Thing... -- Facebook Purges 800 Pages -- Ecuador Restores Julian Assange's Internet, Phone And Visitation Privileges -- Tether's Mysterious Crash: Is the Money Really There? -- Jamal Khashoggi's killing took seven minutes, Turkish source tells MEE --
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News Link • Venezuela
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros For International Trade
10-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Venezuela has just taken the next step in its quest to "free" itself from the tyranny of US dollar hegemony.
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News Link • China
China To Unveil Next-Generation Stealth Bomber In 2019
10-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Last week, the Global Times confirmed that the Hong-20, China's newest long-range stealth bomber was ready for imminent trial flights.
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News Link • Economy - International
Dollar Crash Imminent: China And Japan Dump U.S. Treasuries
10-17-2018
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http://www.shtfplan.com, by Mac Slavo
The two main holders of United States Treasuries, the countries of China and Japan, have dumped the dollar. Both nations have dramatically cut their ownership of notes and bonds in August, according to the latest figures from the US Treasury Departme
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
A booster a week? Rocket Lab moves towards mass production with "huge" new facility
10-17-2018
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https://newatlas.com, by Nick Lavars
Rocket Lab is a private space company with some lofty ambitions, aiming to one day roll one of its Electron boosters off the production line and into space each and every week.
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News Link • Student Loans/Debt
Economic Woes: Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About To Get Worse
10-17-2018
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http://www.shtfplan.com, by Mac Slavo
As politicians continue to point to a booming economy with a low unemployment rate, the real evidence that those surface numbers aren't reflecting reality are becoming more apparent. The student loan crisis in the United States is about to go from
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News Link • G20 Summits
Pepe Escobar: Welcome To The G-20 From Hell
10-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Pepe Escobar
World leaders wrestle with a maelstrom of complex, burning issues as they prepare for November 30 summit...
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News Link • Immigration
Denmark And Italy Fight Back Against Open Borders As Populism Swells Across Europe
10-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Jon Hall
On the heels of the United Kingdom's and Europe's disastrous immigration policies, both Denmark and Italy are fighting back against open borders.
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News Link • Canada
High times! Canadians celebrate the first day of legal recreational marijuana...
10-17-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, by MEGAN SHEETS
High times! Canadians celebrate the first day of legal recreational marijuana by smoking in the streets as they wait in massive lines outside the 111 stores across the country
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News Link • Wikileaks
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is BACK ONLINE after 7-month communications BAN
10-17-2018
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Blacklisted News
The Equadorian government revoked his internet and phone access in March after he breached an agreement "not to issue messages that might interfere with other states".
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News Link • Investigations
Carter Page suing DNC for defamation over Steele dossier
10-17-2018
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New York Post
Page claims in a lawsuit filed in Oklahoma federal court on Monday that from June 2016 through at least September 2016, the DNC, its law firm Perkins Coie and two of the firm's partners, Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann, intentionally spread the con
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
VW's Audi Unit Settles Munich Diesel Probe for $926 Million
10-17-2018
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Bloomberg
The settlement closes another chapter in the long-running probe of Volkswagen's steps to circumvent diesel emissions regulations, uncovered in 2015. Volkswagen in June agreed to a similar deal with Braunschweig prosecutors, agreeing to pay 1 billio
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • FBI
Ex-Senate Aide Pleads Guilty to Lying to F.B.I. About Contacts With Reporter
10-17-2018
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The New York Times
In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop two other false-statement charges and to recommend a low offense level under which federal sentencing guidelines would call for zero to six months in prison. A sentencing hearing before Judge Ketanji Brown Jack
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Why Americans pay too much for health care?: Urine Test
10-17-2018
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The Cato Institute
Why is America's health care system so dysfunctional and expensive? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated charges that come out of the blue from out-of-network providers, or that demand payment for services that weren't d
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Native American
REPORT: Elizabeth Warren's great-great-great grandfather was a member of the militia...
10-17-2018
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DC Clothesline
...that ripped Cherokee from their homes, separating Native American families
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Trump gives Saudi Arabia benefit of doubt in journalist's disappearance
10-17-2018
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Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump gave Saudi Arabia the benefit of the doubt in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi even as U.S. lawmakers pointed the finger at the Saudi leadership and Western pressure mounted on Riyadh to provide answers.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics
A Local Political News Blogger - Kyrsten Sinema "Treason" allegation by Martha McSally
10-17-2018
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Paul Weich
At least you know politicians are... politicians. But "Reporters" should get most of the blame for what's allowed. Audio - Let's see what comes from my conversation with this "news reporter" :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers
10-17-2018
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https://consortiumnews.com, By John Kiriakou
Speaking truth to power has ruined Darin Jones, a former FBI contract specialist who reported evidence of serious procurement improprieties. He should be the last federal whistleblower victimized, writes John Kiriakou.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Former Facebook engineer who railed against liberal culture explains why he quit
10-17-2018
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https://www.foxnews.com By Samuel Chamberlain
A former senior Facebook engineer who wrote a memo earlier this year decrying the social media giant's "political monoculture" told Fox News on Tuesday night that the company has a "vocal minority" intent on implementing "social justice policies acro
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Institutional Investors Attempt To Oust Zuckerberg From Facebook, There's Just One Thing...
10-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Four east-coast state institutional Facebook investors have co-filed a shareholder proposal to remove Mark Zuckerberg as chairman of Facebook following his "mishandling" of several scandals this year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Censorship
Facebook Purges 800 Pages
10-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com by Ben Swann
800 Facebook pages purged in one day for posting "political content", including the Free Thought Project, the Anti-Media, Police the Police, Press For Truth and hundreds of others.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ecuador
Ecuador Restores Julian Assange's Internet, Phone And Visitation Privileges
10-17-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Tyler Durden
Ecuador has partially restored Julian Assange's communications in their London Embassy after UN officials met with Ecuador's president, Lenin Moreno on Friday, reports the Belfast Telegraph.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Tether's Mysterious Crash: Is the Money Really There?
10-17-2018
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moneymaven.io by Mike Mish Shedlock
Tether is a crypto, supposedly pegged to the dollar. On Oct 14, it fell to $0.86. Long-standing concerns surfaced again.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
Jamal Khashoggi's killing took seven minutes, Turkish source tells MEE
10-17-2018
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https://www.middleeasteye.net
Middle East Eye publishes first details of audio tape acquired by Turkish investigators probing what happened to Saudi journalist
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
USA number one in economic competitiveness for the first time in ten years
10-17-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
The United States is the top ranking country in the World Economic Forum 2018 competitiveness rankings. The USA has not been number one in competitiveness since 2008.
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Turkish police search Saudi Consul's residence after 'he was recorded telling hit squad --
10-17-2018
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk By Sara Malm
"Do this outside; you're going to get me in trouble" as they cut off journalist's fingers at embassy'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Housing Continues to Weaken: Starts Decline 5.3%, Permits Down 0.6%
10-17-2018
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Starts, permits, and completions are down across the board as home buying continues to weaken.
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News Link • Washington Leaks
U.S. Treasury official charged with leaks linked to Russia probe
10-17-2018
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https://www.yahoo.com By Brendan Pierson
A U.S. Treasury Department official has been criminally charged with leaking confidential documents relating to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and others to a reporter from digital media company BuzzFeed, Manhattan federal prosecutors s
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ecuador
Newly published files confirm plan to move Assange to Russia
10-17-2018
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https://apnews.com By RAPHAEL SATTER
Julian Assange: Hacker. Journalist. Diplomat?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Investigations
Mueller Ready to Deliver Key Findings in His Trump Probe, Sources Say
10-17-2018
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https://www.bloombergquint.com by Chris Strohm
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the November midterm elections as he faces intensifying pressure to produce more indictments or shut down his investigation, according to two
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