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Date Sent: 2019-05-24
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, May 25, 2019 |
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: May 26, 2019 Edition
Stocks And Bonds Are Both Sending The Exact Same Message As Wall Street Braces... -- "GlobalCoin" - Facebook Aims To Launch Payments-Focused Cryptocurrency In 2020 -- Communism 2.0: It Ain't Over Yet by Bill Buppert -- Doug Casey: "This is Going to be One for the Record Books" -- Justin Trudeau Threatens 'Consequences' If Social Media Sites Don't Ban 'Hate Speech -- Interview 1443 ?" New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato -- SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES TO RAISE DEFENSE SPENDING FOR SECOND YEAR... -- Attorney General Barr Puts Former Intel Bosses Clapper, Brennan On Notice -- CIA Whistleblower: Assange Is Going To Get Railroaded By "Hanging" Judge -- June 28, 2000: The Day Alan Greenspan Jumped the Monetary Shark, Part 1 -- How Many Times Must Assange Be Proven Right Before People Start Listening? -- The Supermarket Chain That Is Upending America's Grocery Industry by Maximizing Efficiency -- Driver's License Photos of Almost Half of US Adults Now Are Being Used in Virtual Line-Ups... -- Bloomberg New Energy Finance Predicts A Bright Future For EVs -- The electric rise and fall of Nikola -- Cost Of Charging A Tesla Model S Around The World -- The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help -- A cinematic journey through visual effects -- How to live before you die -- Prepare for Hard Brexit: Theresa May Resigns, EU Schedules Emergency Meeting -- "Retaliation Is Imminent": Here Are China's "Nuclear" Trade War Options -- 'Troops To Iran' Scare - The Mountain Brings Forth A Mouse -- BATTLE OVER ASSANGE'S COMPUTER: U.S. COULD PLANT FALSE EVIDENCE ON... -- White South African farm activist is stabbed and beaten to death at her home in... -- The 'Forever Wars' Enshrined -- Lance Armstrong insists he 'wouldn't change a thing' about doping that led to him being. -- Boris Johnson Leads UK PM Polls, Says "Prepare For No Deal" -- Private Companies Are Building an Exoskeleton Around Earth -- Robert Mueller wants to testify in private before Congress, ... --
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: May 26, 2019 Edition
05-24-2019
John Semmens
Dems Rail Against Barr Investigation
President Trump's decision to give Attorney General William Barr a free hand in determining which documents related to the intelligence community's covert operation to take down the Trump Administration can be
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News Link • Stock Market
Stocks And Bonds Are Both Sending The Exact Same Message As Wall Street Braces...
05-24-2019
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by Michael Snyder
Stocks And Bonds Are Both Sending The Exact Same Message As Wall Street Braces For A Very Uncertain Future
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
"GlobalCoin" - Facebook Aims To Launch Payments-Focused Cryptocurrency In 2020
05-24-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Marie Huillet
Social media giant Facebook plans to launch its own payments-focused cryptocurrency "Globalcoin" in 2020, according to a BBC news report published on May 24.
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News Link • Philosophy: Communism
Communism 2.0: It Ain't Over Yet by Bill Buppert
05-24-2019
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https://zerogov.com by Bill Buppert
Publisher's Note: I have been scarce in writing since I have been on vacation. I have reading some good books that I will be talking about in future posts.
Less than 612 shopping days until the next empty [pant]suit shuffles into the Offal Office
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Doug Casey: "This is Going to be One for the Record Books"
05-24-2019
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https://internationalman.com, by Doug Casey
Just because society experiences turmoil doesn't mean your personal life has to. And a depression doesn't have to be depressing. Most of the real wealth in the world will still exist--it will just change ownership.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Canada
Justin Trudeau Threatens 'Consequences' If Social Media Sites Don't Ban 'Hate Speech
05-24-2019
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https://needtoknow.news, Information Liberation
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau threatened social media platforms with "consequences" and "meaningful penalties" if they don't "step up" and ban everything his regime feels is "hate speech" or "disinformation." Canadians were no
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News Link • Corbett Report
Interview 1443 â€" New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
05-24-2019
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https://www.corbettreport.com
Welcome back to New World Next Week â€" the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
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News Link • Senate/Senators
SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES TO RAISE DEFENSE SPENDING FOR SECOND YEAR...
05-24-2019
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https://theintercept.com, Alex Emmons
SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES TO RAISE DEFENSE SPENDING FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW TO $750 BILLION
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News Link • Investigations
Attorney General Barr Puts Former Intel Bosses Clapper, Brennan On Notice
05-24-2019
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https://russia-insider.com, Kevin R. Brock
Things seem to be moving quickly now. It has been a remarkable few weeks in American history.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
CIA Whistleblower: Assange Is Going To Get Railroaded By "Hanging" Judge
05-24-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
A former CIA analyst-turned-whistleblower says that an extradited Julian Assange would have no chance of a fair trial in front of a federal judge who "reserves every national security case for herself."
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News Link • Federal Reserve
June 28, 2000: The Day Alan Greenspan Jumped the Monetary Shark, Part 1
05-24-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By David Stockman
As far as we can tell Alan Greenspan was right only a single time after he took the helm of the Fed in August 1987.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
How Many Times Must Assange Be Proven Right Before People Start Listening?
05-24-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Caitlin Johnstone
And there it is. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged by the Trump administration's Justice Department with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act, carrying a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. Exactly as Assange and his defend
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The Supermarket Chain That Is Upending America's Grocery Industry by Maximizing Efficiency
05-24-2019
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https://fee.org by Mark J Perry
There's a reason consumers love Aldi.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Driver's License Photos of Almost Half of US Adults Now Are Being Used in Virtual Line-Ups...
05-24-2019
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https://needtoknow.news
Sixteen states allow the FBI to use face-recognition technology to compare the faces of suspected criminals to their driver's license and ID photos, creating a virtual line-up of their state residents. In addition, state and local police department
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News Link • Transportation
Bloomberg New Energy Finance Predicts A Bright Future For EVs
05-24-2019
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https://insideevs.com by EVANEX
It's time for Bloomberg's annual EV Outlook.
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News Link • History
The electric rise and fall of Nikola
05-24-2019
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https://www.ted.com, Marco Tempest
Combining projection mapping and a pop-up book, Marco Tempest tells the visually arresting story of Nikola Tesla -- called "the greatest geek who ever lived" -- from his triumphant invention of alternating current to his penniless last days.
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News Link • Transportation
Cost Of Charging A Tesla Model S Around The World
05-24-2019
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https://insideevs.com BY STEVEN LOVEDAY
Very interesting to see how charging costs compare in various areas.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help
05-24-2019
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https://www.ted.com, Jocelyne Bloch
Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
A cinematic journey through visual effects
05-24-2019
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https://www.ted.com, Don Levy
It's been 110 years since Georges Méliès sent a spaceship slamming into the eye of the man on the moon. So how far have visual effects come since then?
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News Link • Positive News
How to live before you die
05-24-2019
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https://www.ted.com, Steve Jobs
Best of the Web, just like the rest of TED.com, involves riveting talks by remarkable people. But unlike TEDTalks, these talks don't come from TED or any of our partner conferences.
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News Link • United Kingdom
Prepare for Hard Brexit: Theresa May Resigns, EU Schedules Emergency Meeting
05-24-2019
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mish
Theresa May finally resigned today, forced out by the men in grey and her cabinet. She deserves no praise or sympathy.
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News Link • China
"Retaliation Is Imminent": Here Are China's "Nuclear" Trade War Options
05-24-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Almost exactly one year ago, when the US-China trade war was still in its early stages and when conventional wisdom (wrong, as it usually is) dictated that the two sides would never escalate to...
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News Link • Iran
'Troops To Iran' Scare - The Mountain Brings Forth A Mouse
05-24-2019
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https://www.moonofalabama.org, B
On May 13 a leak to the New York Times launched an 'troops to Iran' scare:
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News Link • Whistleblowers
BATTLE OVER ASSANGE'S COMPUTER: U.S. COULD PLANT FALSE EVIDENCE ON...
05-24-2019
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https://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
BATTLE OVER ASSANGE'S COMPUTER: U.S. COULD PLANT FALSE EVIDENCE ON SCRUBBED COMPUTER
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News Link • Crime
White South African farm activist is stabbed and beaten to death at her home in...
05-24-2019
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By MELISSA VAN BRUNNERSUM and CHRIS PLEASANCE
White South African farm activist is stabbed and beaten to death at her home in horrifying hammer attack
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The 'Forever Wars' Enshrined
05-24-2019
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AntiWar.com by Andrew Bacevich and Tom Engelhardt
Today, TomDispatch regular Andrew Bacevich, author of America's War for the Greater Middle East, focuses on the sole memorial in this country to those who have fought in our now almost 18-year-old war on terror â€" never actually a coherent "war
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Lance Armstrong insists he 'wouldn't change a thing' about doping that led to him being.
05-24-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co, By REUTERS REPORTER
Lance Armstrong insists he 'wouldn't change a thing' about doping that led to him being stripped of record seven Tour de France titles
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News Link • United Kingdom
Boris Johnson Leads UK PM Polls, Says "Prepare For No Deal"
05-24-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Now that Theresa May has confirmed that she will step down as prime minister on June 7 during a tearful resignation speech, investors, politics junkies and inveterate gamblers are all eagerly placing bets on who will win the upcoming Tory leadership
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Private Companies Are Building an Exoskeleton Around Earth
05-24-2019
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https://www.theatlantic.com by Marina Koren
SpaceX and its competitors plan to envelop the planet with thousands of small objects in the next few years.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Robert Mueller wants to testify in private before Congress, ...
05-24-2019
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https://www.cnbc.com by Mike Calia
Special counsel Robert Mueller wants to talk to Congress about his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election, but he wants to do it behind closed doors, says Rep. Jerrold Nadler,
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News Link • Stock Market
The Week That Finally Burst The Tesla Stock Bubble
05-24-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
It was a week that Elon Musk will want to forget: after a chorus of skepticism about Tesla from the very same analysts that have been bullish on Musk and the automaker for years, the Tesla stock bubble is officially bursting, according to Bloomberg.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Sperm counts are on the decline â€" could plastics be to blame?
05-24-2019
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https://www.theguardian.com by Teresa Carr
A recent study that tested both men and dogs added to concerns that chemicals in the environment are damaging the quality and quantity of sperm
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News Link • Food
Fascinating study uncovers how we evolved to benefit from eating fermented food
05-24-2019
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https://newatlas.com, Rich Haridy
For thousand of years humans have been using fermentation as a way of preserving foods and engendering good gut health.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Dismal Durable Goods Report: Inventories Up, Shipments and New Orders Down
05-24-2019
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https://moneymaven.io,by Mish
The durable goods report was supposed to be a bad one. It was, but Boeing does not get most of the blame.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla Gigafactory 3 Construction Progress May 22, 2019: Video
05-24-2019
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https://insideevs.com by Mark Kane
It's unlikely that the main building will be completed by the end of May?
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News Link • Ukraine
Gladio C Plans to Subvert Nord Stream 2 and One Belt, One Road
05-24-2019
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www.newsbud.com, Professor Filip Kovacevic
In the hundred-and-eighth edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the front-page articles from four Russian newspapers: Izvestia, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Kommersant, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
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News Link • Canada
Canada Moves to Ban Christians From Demonstrating in Public Under New "Anti-Hate" Proposal
05-24-2019
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https://www.jihadwatch.org, By Pamela Geller
Dark times in Canada. "Anti-hate" ?" who decides what's good and what's forbidden?
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News Link • DOJ-Department of justice
Justice Department Hits Julian Assange with 17 Espionage-Act Charges
05-24-2019
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https://needtoknow.news, ZeroHedge
The US Department of Justice charged Julian Assange with 18 crimes, claiming that he violated the Espionage Act by soliciting information through posting a list of "Most Wanted Leaks," which included classified material. The DOJ asserts that Assa
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News Link • Military
The US Navy Wants to Archive 350 Billion Social Media Posts
05-24-2019
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https://needtoknow.news, ZeroHedge
The Navy is soliciting contractors for bids for a project that would collect a massive 350 billion social media posts dating from 2014 through 2016 across at least 100 countries and multiple languages. The Navy did not disclose which social media sit
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News Link • United Kingdom
UK Prime Minister Theresa May Announces Resignation After 3-Year Brexit Failure
05-24-2019
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https://needtoknow.news, Breitbart
Mrs. May said that she would be resigning as leader of the Conservative Party on June 7th, so that a successor could be chosen. However, May revealed she would also be staying on as Prime Minister until her replacement is selected, which could take w
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News Link • Propaganda
Syria: Leaked Chemical Weapons Watchdog Report Suggests Assad Not Responsible for 2018 Gas Attack
05-24-2019
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https://needtoknow.news, Consortium News
Tucker Carlson reported that an internal document was leaked from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that contained information from an investigator who argued that the gas attack in Douma, Syria on April 7, 2018 was not
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News Link • Wikileaks
Assange Hit With Espionage Act Violations As DoJ Unveils 17 New Charges
05-24-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com
The worst fears of Julian Assange's legal team have just been realized.
Just as Wikileaks' editor in chief anticipated, the DoJ has revealed that a grand jury in Virginia has returned a new 18-count superseding indictment against Assange that incl
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