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Date Sent: 2019-05-04
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Saturday, May 4, 2019 |
Income Inequality & The Decline Of The Middle Class In Two Simple Charts
PJW: Banned by Facebook & Instagram -- WaPo, CNN Virtually Silent After NYT Reveals 2nd FBI Spy Sent To Infiltrate Trump Campaign -- "Mass sterilization": Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine -- Feds Seek Permanent Renewal Of NSA Phone Surveillance Law -- Financial Blacklisting: Activists Pressure MasterCard Stockholders to Censor "Far Right" -- Australia Is Adopting China's Surveillance and Tracking Technology to Spy on Its Citizens -- China's Mass Surveillance App Hacked; Code Reveals Specific Criteria For Illegal Oppression -- The Fed Has Lost Control Of Rates As 'Technical Tweak' Fails -- Robots Edge Closer to Unloading Trucks in Amazon-Era Milestone -- Fighter Jets with Missile-Killing Lasers Take Another Step Toward Reality -- How the Gun-Grabbers Grabbed Nevada -- NASA Prepares For "The God Of Chaos" Asteroid To Arrive -- Jared Kushner reveals details of upcoming US peace plan for the Middle East - -- Trump says he will declassify 'everything' about warrants Obama used to spy on his campaign- -- America 'had agreed deal with Venezuelan military that Maduro would be arrested this week - ' -- Barr Launches Wide-Ranging Probe Into 2016 FBI Spying -- Incredible footage from the Hubble telescope reveals the enormity of the universe a... -- I Dare You To Tell Me The Economy Is "Booming"... -- Venezuela - Forensics Of A Clownish Coup -- Time to End All Foreign Aid -- Florida's Legislature Passes Bill Banning Speech in Schools that Is Critical of Israeli Governme -- Putin and Trump Talk, Nothing Changes -- Mikhail Gorbachev on Nuclear Madness -- Iran Vows to Keep Exporting Oil and Gas -- Media Response to Fizzled Coup Plot in Venezuela -- The NYT Lying Machine on Venezuela -- Outdated regulations are forcing a choice between love and social security -- Merck FAKED mumps vaccine research -- Nearly 40 percent of Americans have fatty liver ?" here's how to treat it --
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: May 5, 2019 Edition
05-03-2019
John Semmens
Dems Demand Copy of Unredacted Mueller Report
Despite the fact that the copy of the Special Counsel's released to the public shows less than 10% was redacted and despite the fact that a completely unredacted copy is available for key members of Co
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Income Inequality & The Decline Of The Middle Class In Two Simple Charts
05-03-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Now look at the middle quintiles--the middle class: their income has gone nowhere in the past decade.
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News Link • Censorship
PJW: Banned by Facebook & Instagram
05-03-2019
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
My final ever video?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
WaPo, CNN Virtually Silent After NYT Reveals 2nd FBI Spy Sent To Infiltrate Trump Campaign
05-03-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
After the New York Times revealed that the FBI sent a second spy to infiltrate the Trump campaign during the 2016 US election - a 'honeypot' who went by the name of Azra Turk who posed as a research assistant to the first spy they sent in, Stefan Hal
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
"Mass sterilization": Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine
05-03-2019
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https://healthimpactnews.com by Brian Shilhavy
According to LifeSiteNews, a Catholic publication, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association is charging UNICEF and WHO with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program sponsored by the Kenyan government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Feds Seek Permanent Renewal Of NSA Phone Surveillance Law
05-03-2019
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https://www.technocracy.news By: Ellen Nakashima
Even though the NSA itself has scrapped a large part of its phone spying/data collection operation because of abysmal usefulness, the Trump Admin is seeking to make its authority to collect the data permanent. ? TN Editor
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Financial Blacklisting: Activists Pressure MasterCard Stockholders to Censor "Far Right"
05-03-2019
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https://needtoknow.news via Breitbart
Left-wing activists, who call themselves ThisIsUs and are linked to Color of Change, forced MasterCard to hold a shareholder vote on creating a 'human rights committee' to "stop designated white supremacist groups and anti-Islam activists, such
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Australia
Australia Is Adopting China's Surveillance and Tracking Technology to Spy on Its Citizens
05-03-2019
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https://needtoknow.news via Old Thinker News
The city of Darwin, Australia is integrating Chinese surveillance technology that is used in its tyrannical social credit system for a new program Down Under called 'virtual fences' that will track people, their movements around the city, the web
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's Mass Surveillance App Hacked; Code Reveals Specific Criteria For Illegal Oppression
05-03-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Human Rights Watch got their hands on an app used by Chinese authorities in the western Xinjiang region to surveil, track and categorize the entire local population - particularly the 13 million or so Turkic Muslims subject to heightened scrutiny, of
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Has Lost Control Of Rates As 'Technical Tweak' Fails
05-03-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
While the rest of the world is distracted by the plummeting unemployment rates and trade deal hype, a funny (well not so funny) thing happened in the short-term funding markets in the world's reserve currency.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robots Edge Closer to Unloading Trucks in Amazon-Era Milestone
05-03-2019
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https://www.bloomberg.com, By Thomas Black
As FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com Inc., they've been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks.
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News Link • Weapons/Weaponry
Fighter Jets with Missile-Killing Lasers Take Another Step Toward Reality
05-03-2019
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https://www.defenseone.com, BY PATRICK TUCKER
U.S. Air Force says a ground-based laser downed multiple test missiles over New Mexico.
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News Link • Gun Rights
How the Gun-Grabbers Grabbed Nevada
05-03-2019
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https://www.firearmsnews.com, Vin Suprynowicz
Barring some recent exceptions including public schools and airports, Nevada has been an "open carry" state for as long as anyone can remember. It's an arid, mostly empty land where ranchers talk "acres-per-cow," not "cows-per-acre." He
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Prepares For "The God Of Chaos" Asteroid To Arrive
05-03-2019
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https://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
NASA is already beginning preparations for the arrival of the asteroid called "The God of Chaos." The asteroid is said to be approaching Earth and will come close to our planet in 2029.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Jared Kushner reveals details of upcoming US peace plan for the Middle East -
05-03-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk By Andrew Court
-and says it will avoid the words 'two-state' and will accept Jerusalem as Israel's capital
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump says he will declassify 'everything' about warrants Obama used to spy on his campaign-
05-03-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk by David Martosko
-as he suggests James Comey was 'leading the effort' and the scandal will be 'bigger than WATERGATE'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Venezuela
America 'had agreed deal with Venezuelan military that Maduro would be arrested this week - '
05-03-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk byDianne Apen-sadler
- only for high-ranking Caracas official to change his mind'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Investigations
Barr Launches Wide-Ranging Probe Into 2016 FBI Spying
05-03-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Attorney General William Barr told the Senate Judiciary Panel this week that he has assembled a team at the Justice Department to probe whether the spying conducted by the FBI against the Trump campaign in 2016 was improper, reports Bloomberg.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Incredible footage from the Hubble telescope reveals the enormity of the universe a...
05-03-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk By Yuan Ren
The mosaic image includes 265,000 galaxies captured by Hubble
It includes ancient galaxies formed only 500 million years after the Big Bang
Looking deeper into space means looking earlier into the universe's history
The farthest galaxies are 1 i
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
I Dare You To Tell Me The Economy Is "Booming"...
05-03-2019
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com, by Michael Snyder
After taking an honest look at the facts, I don't know how anyone can possibly claim that the U.S. economy is "booming".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Venezuela - Forensics Of A Clownish Coup
05-03-2019
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https://www.moonofalabama.org
Tuesdays clownish coup attempt in Venezuela failed. The Trump administration got snookered.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Time to End All Foreign Aid
05-03-2019
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https://www.fff.org, by Laurence M. Vance
Late last month, Donald Trump announced his intention to cut off U.S. foreign aid to three countries in Central America's Northern Triangle: Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Florida's Legislature Passes Bill Banning Speech in Schools that Is Critical of Israeli Governme
05-03-2019
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https://needtoknow.news via Florida Watchdog
A bill in Florida, waiting for the signature of Governor Ron DeSantis, requires public schools, including universities and colleges, to treat anti-Semitism as discrimination, and anti-Semitic speech and acts as racist. The bill conflates criticism of
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News Link • Science
Outdated regulations are forcing a choice between love and social security
05-04-2019
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arclein
Her husband worked as a roofer and earned $12 an hour. His seasonal income fluctuations left Susan hovering near the Medicaid eligibility cap, which came out to around $20,600 annually at the time, in 2007. She already had briefly lost coverage durin
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Merck FAKED mumps vaccine research
05-04-2019
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arclein
With the deceptive "mainstream" media now running measles hysteria 24/7, you might be shocked to learn that the MMR vaccine doesn't work as claimed. Even Reuters is now reporting that 10% of those infected with the measles were previously vacci
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
Nearly 40 percent of Americans have fatty liver ?" here's how to treat it
05-04-2019
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arclein
People who consume processed sugars and fatty foods or take drugs, those who are overweight, and those who live a sedentary lifestyle are at risk for developing liver disease. Therefore, it is important to avoid these foods, as well as alcohol and dr
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News Link • Trump Administration
Qanon Movements
05-04-2019
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arclein
"The danger for 'We the People' is the Dark Left and Dark Left violence," said Shipp. "As these indictments begin to come out, and as the players are called out, the violence on what I call the Dark Left, the violence is going to increase t
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robert klein
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News Link • Yemen
Senate Fails to Override Trump's Veto on Yemen War Resolution
05-03-2019
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https://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Senate manages only 53-45 in key vote to end Yemen War
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News Link • Venezuela
Will the Real Moron Please Stand Up?
05-03-2019
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https://original.antiwar.com, By Justin Raimondo
"I wonder how he goes to work every day," says a longtime aide to John Bolton, "because deep in his heart he believes the President is a moron."
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News Link • Venezuela
Details Emerge on Failed US-Backed Coup in Venezuela
05-03-2019
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https://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Opposition figure Lopez met with generals while under house arrest
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Assange to Extradition Court: 'I Won't Surrender to the US for Doing Journalism'
05-03-2019
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https://consortiumnews.com, By Joe Lauria
Julian Assange had his first day in court on Thursday in his fight against extradition to the United States in an historic press freedom case that could have a profound impact on the future of journalism.
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News Link • Turkey
The "Real" Gulen Deal in Turkey & RT Documentary Series
05-03-2019
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https://www.newsbud.com, SIBEL EDMONDS
It's been almost three years since the attempted coup in Turkey, yet many questions still remain: Was it real? Was it carried out by the CIA's Gulen network?
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News Link • China
China Plays Defense…and Offense Against America
05-03-2019
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https://www.newsbud.com, PETER LEE
China held its annual Belt and Road bash in Beijing. Xi Jinping carefully and effectively parried Western attacks on China's signature strategic initiative.
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News Link • United Kingdom
Brexit Party Soars in European Parliament Polls, 9 Points Ahead of Labour
05-03-2019
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mish
Nigel Farage's newly formed Brexit Party is in first place in European Parliament polls, pulling well ahead of Labour.
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D-printed an All-liquid Lab on a Chip Can Be Infinitely Reconfigured on Demand
05-03-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Berkeley Labs has 3D-printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications â€" from making battery materials to screening drug candidates.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla's Future is Ten Times Better If They Pull Off Self-driving
05-03-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Citigroup and Goldman Sachs underwriting Tesla raise over $2 billion in funding. They held an investor call on Thursday, where CEO Elon Musk and CFO Zach Kirkhorn answered questions about their plans.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Bokhari: Link-banning Is Facebook's Terrifying New Censorship Tool
05-03-2019
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https://www.breitbart.com,
The banning of multiple political commentators from Facebook and Instagram, including conservatives Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, is an outrage against the ideals of an open Internet on its own.
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News Link • Germany
Mohammed Number One Name for Baby Boys in Berlin
05-03-2019
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https://www.breitbart.com, CHRIS TOMLINSON
According to data released by the Gesellschaft für Deutsche Sprache (Society for the German Language), the most popular boy's name for newborn babies in Berlin is Mohammed.
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News Link • Genocide
Christian persecution 'at near genocide levels'
05-03-2019
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https://www.bbc.com
The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near "genocide" levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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News Link • Korea/North Korea
North Korea faces food crisis after poor harvest, U.N. says
05-03-2019
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https://www.reuters.com, Tom Miles
Four in ten North Koreans are chronically short of food and further cuts to already minimal rations are expected after the worst harvest in a decade, the United Nations said on Friday.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump: "Had Very Productive Talk" With Putin, "We Discussed Trade, Venezuela... And R
05-03-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Update: shortly after the conversation, Trump himself decided to chime in saying that he "had a long and very good conversation with President Putin of Russia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Positive News
'I have never seen anything like it!'
05-03-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk By Shirley Donlon
Mumbai dance team WOWS Jennifer Lopez with a 'mind-blowing' jungle-themed World of Dance routine - as it racks up MILLIONS of online views
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Robert Lee
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News Link • France
Fascinating footage shows France's last ever duel:
05-03-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk By Chiara Fiorillo
Two politicians fought for their honour in 1967 after one shouted 'Shut up, stupid!' at the other
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
MMR Vaccine Licensing Called Into Question Following ICAN's Latest FOIA Exposure of FDA Coverup
05-03-2019
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Yahoo Finance News
...the MMR vaccine was licensed based on clinical trials which in total had less than 1,000 participants and far more adverse reactions than previously acknowledged.
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