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Date Sent: 2019-02-09
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, February 9, 2019 |
Richard Branson says he'll fly to space by July
Ocean Shipping Rates Plunge: Just A Blip Or The End Of Globalization? -- More Violence in Paris as 'Yellow Vests' Keep Marching -- Wealth concentration near 'levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,' study finds -- Raspberry Pi opens first bricks and mortar store -- Then They Came For The Memes -- Exclusive: Roger Stone Raid Footage Was Leaked by Someone Inside Intel Committee -- World's Largest 3D Printed Rocket Engine -- Venezuela Is An Opportunity For Russia And China To Change The World -- IBM Investing $2 Billion in an AI Center and Targets 1000 Times Improvement by 2029 -- Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser Is Gushing at a Record Pace -- Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance... -- Nikola Announces All-Electric Semi Truck: Up To 1,000-kWh Battery -- Car-jack-on-steroids exposes vehicles' underbellies -- TALOS Exoskeleton Program Fails But Silent Electric Dirt Bikes Could Work Out -- Mind Reading Computers Directly Convert Brain Signals into Speech -- National Enquirer Responds To Bezos' "Blackmail" Allegations -- America's Most Libertarian State Is…? -- Reports: Russian authorities make deal with Google -- How new pro football leagues could change the NFL and college game -- "WTF Is Going On In Downtown LA?": Army War Drills Continue Across Los Angeles -- Venezuela: America's 68th Regime-Change Disaster -- Space-Based Technocracy: Asgardia Exceeds 1,000,000 Citizens -- California police discover secret underground shooting range, weapons... -- Miracle treatment or dangerous drug? Indonesia cashes in on Kratom -- Merkel opens spy agency's massive new Berlin HQ -- Hillary teases 2020 run? Clinton tells conference 'It takes a woman to get the job... -- U.S. Military Warns of Threat From Chinese-Run Space Station in Argentina -- Next Stop: Recession! -- Trump's Vow To Stay In Iraq "To Watch Iran" Has Unleashed A Political Storm In Baghdad --
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Ocean Shipping Rates Plunge: Just A Blip Or The End Of Globalization?
02-09-2019
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https://www.dollarcollapse.com, by John Rubino
The Baltic Dry Index represents the cost of renting an ocean-going container ship to move goods from, say, Chinese factories to the Port of Los Angeles.
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News Link • France
More Violence in Paris as 'Yellow Vests' Keep Marching
02-09-2019
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https://www.usnews.com, By Emmanuel Jarry
Thousands of French "yellow vest" demonstrators marched on Saturday for their 13th weekend of action, with scuffles in Paris and a demonstrator's hand mangled by a small explosive.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wealth concentration near 'levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,' study finds
02-09-2019
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By Christopher Ingraham
The shift is eroding security from families in the lower and middle classes, who rely on their small stores to finance retirement and to smooth over shocks like the loss of a job. And it's consolidating power in the hands of billionaires, who are inc
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Raspberry Pi opens first bricks and mortar store
02-09-2019
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https://newatlas.com, Paul Ridden
There's no doubt that the Raspberry Pi has played a huge part in the growth of the maker community.
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News Link • Free Speech
Then They Came For The Memes
02-09-2019
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
The next phase of the war on free speech
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
World's Largest 3D Printed Rocket Engine
02-09-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian Wang
Space startup Orbex has revealed the world's largest 3D printed rocket engine.
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News Link • Venezuela
Venezuela Is An Opportunity For Russia And China To Change The World
02-09-2019
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paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
Nothing better illustrates Washington's opposition to democracy and self-determination than the blatantly public coup Washington has organized against the properly elected president of Venezuela.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
IBM Investing $2 Billion in an AI Center and Targets 1000 Times Improvement by 2029
02-09-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, christina wong
IBM will invest $2 billion to develop artificial intelligence hardware and boost AI performance by 1000 times over the next ten years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Geology
Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser Is Gushing at a Record Pace
02-09-2019
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https://www.travelbreakingnews.net, NYTIMES
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Science Subscribe Log In Log In Today's Paper Science |
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News Link • Surveillance
Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance...
02-09-2019
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https://theintercept.com, Glenn Greenwald
Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else
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News Link • Inventions
Car-jack-on-steroids exposes vehicles' underbellies
02-09-2019
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https://newatlas.com, Ben Coxworth
Although professional mechanics use a lift or a pit to get at the undersides of cars, home-based tinkerers don't usually have such a setup in their garage.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
TALOS Exoskeleton Program Fails But Silent Electric Dirt Bikes Could Work Out
02-09-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian Wang
Patrick Tucker at Defense One has reported that James Smith, SOCOM's acquisition executive has stated that the Special Ops Exoskeleton is nowhere near ready for use in combat.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mind Reading Computers Directly Convert Brain Signals into Speech
02-09-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian Wang
Columbia neuroengineers have created a system that translates thought into intelligible, recognizable speech.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Seriously?
National Enquirer Responds To Bezos' "Blackmail" Allegations
02-09-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Update 1: American Media International - the parent of The National Enquirer - has responded to Bezos' accusations with a brief statement:
"American Media believes fervently that it acted lawfully in the reporting of the story of Mr. Bezos.
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News Link • Russia
Reports: Russian authorities make deal with Google
02-09-2019
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https://apnews.com, AP
Russian news reports say that Google has agreed with national authorities to delete links to websites banned in Russia.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
How new pro football leagues could change the NFL and college game
02-09-2019
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https://www.usatoday.com, Brent Schrotenboer
The longtime agent for NFL quarterback Tom Brady is starting a new pro football league next year in Southern California called Pacific Pro Football.
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News Link • Military
"WTF Is Going On In Downtown LA?": Army War Drills Continue Across Los Angeles
02-09-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Having started on Monday, the US Army continues its war drills across the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area through Saturday with the goal of enhancing Army Special Forces skills by "operating in urban environments", Army Special Operations Comma
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News Link • United States
Venezuela: America's 68th Regime-Change Disaster
02-09-2019
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: US Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space-Based Technocracy: Asgardia Exceeds 1,000,000 Citizens
02-09-2019
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https://www.technocracy.news, BY: SCOTT BOYD
A video came out about five months ago that detailed the nation of Asgardia, a newly formed technocracy that is based in space. Their sovereign "lands" are a space station currently in low Earth orbit and their citizens are spread around the worl
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News Link • California
California police discover secret underground shooting range, weapons...
02-09-2019
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https://www.foxnews.com, By Kathleen Joyce
California police discover secret underground shooting range, weapons, thousands of rounds of ammo at gang member's home
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Miracle treatment or dangerous drug? Indonesia cashes in on Kratom
02-09-2019
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https://coconuts.co, By AFP
The sweltering backwaters of Indonesian Borneo have become the unlikely ground zero for the global production and export of Kratom, a tree leaf hailed by some as a miracle cure for everything from opioid addiction to anxiety.
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News Link • Germany
Merkel opens spy agency's massive new Berlin HQ
02-09-2019
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http://www.dailystar.com, Agence France Presse
Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday inaugurated the new, fortress-like Berlin headquarters of Germany's scandal-plagued BND foreign intelligence service.
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News Link • Clinton News
Hillary teases 2020 run? Clinton tells conference 'It takes a woman to get the job...
02-09-2019
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http://www.theamericanmirror.com, BY MARTIN WALSH
Hillary teases 2020 run? Clinton tells conference 'It takes a woman to get the job done'
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump's Vow To Stay In Iraq "To Watch Iran" Has Unleashed A Political Storm In Baghdad
02-09-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Elijah J. Magnier
US president Donald Trump's stated intention to remain in Iraq in order to "be looking a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem" has created a political storm in Mesopotamia among local politicians and groups now determined to put an
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