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Date Sent: 2019-02-13
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, February 14, 2019 |
Why S&P Bulls Should Worry As The Baltic Dry Collapse Nears Worst On Record
Macro Frost, Markets Hot: "Makes You Wonder Who's Doing All The Buying" -- The TSA's Secret Watchlist for Travelers Who Don't Kowtow -- New 'Smart Region' Scheme Is Regionalism To Dictate Smart City Makeovers -- The Strange Death of Europe: Multiculturalism & Diversity Prove Destructive -- BuzzFeed Journalists Unionize Following Layoffs As Doubts Grow Over CEO Jonah Peretti -- Fables, Fairy Tales, And The Gold Standard -- SpaceX Will Soon Pour Pavement for Starhopper Launchpad -- Moon Bases, Orbital Bases and the Start of Mars Colonization by 2040 -- US Consumer Price Growth Slowest Since Sept 2016 As Gas Prices Plummet -- "Things Are Deteriorating Quite Fast": Europe Emerges As World's "Weakest Link -- Congress Will Not Support Military Intervention In Venezuela -- Mastercard just launched a sonic logo. Here's what it sounds like -- Understanding Why Iranians Bash the U.S. Government -- The Airlines Have Announced What They Will Do In the Face of Another Government... -- Government Shutdown Is the Best-Ever Argument for Privatization -- The observer mission in Hebron acted as a restraint on the settlers' worst excesses. -- Suicide Attack On Iranian Revolutionary Guard Bus Leaves Over 20 Dead -- Bitcoin Successfully Sent Cross-Border Without Internet or Satellite -- Sirin Labs Finney Blockchain Phone -- Roger Ver attacks Bitcoin [BTC]; accuses the world's top cryptocurrency of "censorship' -- Art Teacher Cheers Up Stressed-Out Students By Hosting 'Bob Ross Flash Mob' With Wigs and Pa -- Elon Musk and Others Plan the Details for a City on Mars -- BILLIONAIRE: GET BITCOIN NOW - WHILE NO ONE REALLY CARES -- LinkedIn Launches a Live Video Streaming Service -- Heather Mac Donald on Racial Preferences for STEM Admissions -- Tickets to Mars Will Eventually Cost Less Than $500,000, Elon Musk Says -- Mexican Scientists Find a CURE for HPV (But It Wouldn't Be PROFITABLE to Approve It in the US) -- Stossel: A Better School -- Converting cells into new neurons could lead to a pill that repairs brain damage --
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News Link • Stock Market
Why S&P Bulls Should Worry As The Baltic Dry Collapse Nears Worst On Record
02-13-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
As we noted recently, despite global stock markets soaring, global freight indices have been more-than-seasonally weak so far in 2019 with the Baltic Dry Index in particular crashing.
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News Link • Stock Market
Macro Frost, Markets Hot: "Makes You Wonder Who's Doing All The Buying"
02-13-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Sven Henrich
Markets are red hot, but it keeps getting downright frosty in macro land. Bulls will say none of this matters because an easy Fed trumps fundamentals. And that may turn out to be correct, but it's too early to tell.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation Security Agengy/TSA
The TSA's Secret Watchlist for Travelers Who Don't Kowtow
02-13-2019
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https://libertarianinstitute.org, By Jim Bovard
"I need a witness!" exclaimed the worried Transportation Security Administration screener at Reagan Washington National Airport a few months ago. Because I had forgotten to remove my belt before going through a TSA scanner, he explained that I mu
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News Link • Technocracy
New 'Smart Region' Scheme Is Regionalism To Dictate Smart City Makeovers
02-13-2019
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https://www.technocracy.news, BY: ARIZONA STATE U
Imagine a perfect day in metro Phoenix: no traffic congestion and autonomous vehicles glide commuters through the streets, hitting nothing but green lights.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
BuzzFeed Journalists Unionize Following Layoffs As Doubts Grow Over CEO Jonah Peretti
02-13-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
US-based BuzzFeed journalists have voted to unionize, seeking better benefits and fair pay in the wake of massive layoffs last month, according to Bloomberg.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Fables, Fairy Tales, And The Gold Standard
02-13-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Erik Lytikainen
President Trump often tweets about the strength and health of the U.S. economy, and two weeks ago, he tweeted that the U.S. economy was the Gold Standard throughout the World.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Moon Bases, Orbital Bases and the Start of Mars Colonization by 2040
02-13-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
One of Elon Musk's speeches was animated by After Skool. Elon discussed how societal and technological progress is not inevitable.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Consumer Price Growth Slowest Since Sept 2016 As Gas Prices Plummet
02-13-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
While headline and core CPI slowed in December, the print was still boosted by outsized gains in a few specific categories so it wouldn't be a great surprise to see some payback in January (and expectations were for a slowdown).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
"Things Are Deteriorating Quite Fast": Europe Emerges As World's "Weakest Link
02-13-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Last week, when looking at the latest regional Industrial Production figures out of European nations, we made a simple observation: while GDP has yet to confirm, Europe is now in a recession.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress Will Not Support Military Intervention In Venezuela
02-13-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Despite the War Powers Act, when it comes to the US declaring covert, not so covert or any other type of war, or merely "humanitarian intervention" on a foreign adversary, the US Congress has historically been utterly toothless and generally irreleva
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Mastercard just launched a sonic logo. Here's what it sounds like
02-13-2019
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https://www.fastcompany.com, BY MARK WILSON
With the voice shopping industry set to reach $40 billion by 2022, major companies are investing not just in how their brands look, but how they sound.
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News Link • Iran
Understanding Why Iranians Bash the U.S. Government
02-13-2019
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https://www.fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
Two days ago, the New York Times carried an article by Times' journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, "For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the U.S.," which was about Iran's celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Government Shutdown Is the Best-Ever Argument for Privatization
02-13-2019
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https://internationalman.com by Mark Nestmann
I was starting to feel sorry for the 800,000 federal employees who hadn't received paychecks for more than a month. Then Donald Trump caved to the Democrats and ended the government shutdown.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
The observer mission in Hebron acted as a restraint on the settlers' worst excesses.
02-13-2019
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https://www.jonathan-cook.net
Now that has come to an end
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TERRORISM
Suicide Attack On Iranian Revolutionary Guard Bus Leaves Over 20 Dead
02-13-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Iranian state media reports a massive suicide bombing has ripped through an Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) transport bus in the country's southeast on Wednesday, leaving at least 20 dead and over 20 wounded.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Successfully Sent Cross-Border Without Internet or Satellite
02-13-2019
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Bitcoinist.com
Fears over government interference and internet surveillance have given rise to some novel experiments in sending offline transactions as somebody has transmitted bitcoin internationally by high frequency radio… through a snowstorm.
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Donna Hancock
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