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Date Sent: 2019-12-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, December 24, 2019 |
How Adam Smith Showed We Can Do Good By Doing Well
The best gift ever? Adorable little girl is positively thrilled to open an early... -- They're STILL After Your Fingerprints! ?" #PropagandaWatch -- "Inflation Is Inevitably Going To Rise" - Is Alan Greenspan Right? -- Steven Mnuchin Explains Why $1.5 Trillion In $100 Bills Have Disappeared -- Meet Marty, The Electric Autonomous DMC DeLorean That Drifts By Itself -- Rivian Scores $1.3 Billion In Latest Investment Round -- Tesla Picks Pockets Of Chinese Banks As It Borrows Another $1.4 Billion -- Tesla Secures $420; "Whoa... The Stock Is So High" Musk Tweets -- Two Giant Distressed Funds Gate Clients From Withdrawing Money -- A Trend Worth Considering " The Price Of Gold Since 1971 -- Congo Fever -- Donald Trump: Peace Candidate, Presidential Warmonger -- The Rise of Skywalker and the decline of Star Wars -- A great disturbance in the force: The Rise of Skywalker's debut generates $374million... -- Eddie Murphy Returns to SNL | 2019 Mr Robinson's Neighborhood -- Michigan county threatens to demolish 14 Amish homes unless - -- Joe Who? Obama Privately Telling Top Donors To Rally Around Warren -- US New Home Sales Disappoint As Median Price Soars -- Meltup Accelerates Into Christmas Break As Algos Run Wild In Illiquid Markets -- Trump's Letter to Pelosi -- Paul Volcker: The Man Who Vanquished Gold -- Mike Bloomberg is plowing millions of dollars into a secretive tech firm -- -- Thai court to rule on case linking opposition to Illuminati -- EPSTEIN 'ADMITTED TO ME' HE WAS A SPY: -- China orders Christians to rewrite the Bible for the era of President Xi -- The Crazy Government Research Projects You Might've Missed in 2019 -- Tucker Carlson Says the Heritage Foundation and Other Koch-Funded Groups Secretly Support - -- Toulouse, France: Far-Left Activists Storm Children's Nativity Play and Force It to Shut Down -- Clinton Impeachment 'Judge': Trump Impeachment Is "Phony" --
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News Link • Libya
After Haftar Seizes Turkish Vessel, Erdogan Deepens Military Role In Libya, Angering Russia
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
As we predicted the Libyan war 2.0 has spilled into the Mediterranean and now standings on the brink of becoming a major renewed international proxy conflict bringing in regional powers, especially Turkey, Egypt, and potentially Russia.
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News Link • Kids
The best gift ever? Adorable little girl is positively thrilled to open an early...
12-23-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co, By CARLY STERN
The best gift ever? Adorable little girl is positively thrilled to open an early Christmas present and find a BANANA inside
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News Link • FBI
They're STILL After Your Fingerprints! â€" #PropagandaWatch
12-23-2019
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https://www.corbettreport.com, Corbett
Remember when we looked at J. Edgar Hoover's lame attempt to get the public to voluntarily send in their fingerprints to the FBI back in 1937? Well guess what? They're baaaaaaack, and they're at the post office this time. Find out about the FBI
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"Inflation Is Inevitably Going To Rise" - Is Alan Greenspan Right?
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com Via DataTrekResearch.com
"Right now, there's no real inflation at play. But if we go further than we are currently, inflation is inevitably going to rise." That's from Alan Greenspan on CNBC this week.
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Steven Mnuchin Explains Why $1.5 Trillion In $100 Bills Have Disappeared
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Last week we reported that something strange was going on at the same time that central banks are injecting $100 billion each month in electronic money to crush volatility and ramp markets: a similar amount in physical currency and precious metals wa
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News Link • Transportation
Meet Marty, The Electric Autonomous DMC DeLorean That Drifts By Itself
12-23-2019
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https://insideevs.com, By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo
Thank the Stanford Dynamic Design Lab for this incredible accomplishment.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Rivian Scores $1.3 Billion In Latest Investment Round
12-23-2019
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https://insideevs.com By Eric Loveday
Amazon and Ford are among the investors.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla Picks Pockets Of Chinese Banks As It Borrows Another $1.4 Billion
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Tesla, which supposedly has lots of cash in the bank and tons of working capital (just ask David Einhorn), is tapping a group of Chinese banks for a relatively small $1.4 billion USD, five year loan, for the company's Shanghai plant.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Tesla Secures $420; "Whoa... The Stock Is So High" Musk Tweets
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
It get's better: the day's high so far is $420.420, almost as if someone had a rather twisted sense of humor, and a large sell order at that price.
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News Link • United Kingdom
Two Giant Distressed Funds Gate Clients From Withdrawing Money
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Until recently, funds that imposed redemption "gates" on their investors were those who had suffered a substantial mismatch between the illiquidity of their investments and the liquidity preference of their investors (which tends to be instantaneous)
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News Link • Gold and Silver
A Trend Worth Considering " The Price Of Gold Since 1971
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Michael Maharrey
As we approach the end of 2019, gold is on track for a healthy yearly gain. To date, the yellow metal is up over 16% on the year.
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News Link • General Opinion
Congo Fever
12-23-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by International Man
Doug Casey's Note: I've often said that, knowing what I do today, if I were 30 years old and wanted to seek my fortune, I'd definitely go to Africa.
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News Link • Impeachment
Donald Trump: Peace Candidate, Presidential Warmonger
12-23-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Walter E. Block
Mr. Trump ran in 2016 almost on a peace platform in terms of foreign policy. He said things such as this:
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
A great disturbance in the force: The Rise of Skywalker's debut generates $374million...
12-23-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co, ARIEL ZILBER
A great disturbance in the force: The Rise of Skywalker's debut generates $374million in worldwide ticket sales - the LOWEST of the recent Star Wars trilogy in blow to Disney
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Eddie Murphy Returns to SNL | 2019 Mr Robinson's Neighborhood
12-23-2019
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https://www.youtube.com, LA Radio Now
After 35 years Eddie Murphy returns and kills Saturday Night LIVE in his triumphant return!
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Joe Who? Obama Privately Telling Top Donors To Rally Around Warren
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
While Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) spent most of her campaign railing against the donor class while refusing to accept large checks from Democratic bundlers, former President Obama has been privately talking up the 2020 candidate who formerly identified a
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News Link • Housing
US New Home Sales Disappoint As Median Price Soars
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Despite homebuilder sentiment soaring to 20-year highs, existing home sales slipped unexpectedly in November and new home sales are also expected to decline marginally MoM, but instead surprised to the upside with a 1.3% MoM.
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News Link • Stock Market
Meltup Accelerates Into Christmas Break As Algos Run Wild In Illiquid Markets
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
After the decade's last quad-witching came and went without any adverse incidents, and instead a massive short squeeze of the December Emini contract into its 930am Friday expiration repriced the entire market about 15 points higher...
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News Link • General Opinion
Trump's Letter to Pelosi
12-23-2019
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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org by Paul Craig Rob
The Saker has posted President Trump's letter to Nancy Pelosi with his commentary https://thesaker.is/very-important-letter-from-donald-trump-to-nancy-pelosi-must-read/ . I agree with Saker that Trump's impression of the good condition of the US
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News Link • Death
Paul Volcker: The Man Who Vanquished Gold
12-23-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Joseph T. Salerno
The flood of obituaries that noted the passing of Paul Volcker (1927â€"2019) last week have almost all lauded his achievement as Fed chair (1979â€"1987) in reining in the double-digit inflation that ravaged the US economy during the 1970s.
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News Link • Secret Societies
Thai court to rule on case linking opposition to Illuminati
12-23-2019
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https://apnews.com By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON
Thailand's Constitutional Court says it will rule on a sedition complaint that claims a popular opposition political party is linked to the Illuminati, which conspiracy theorists say secretly seeks world domination.
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News Link • Investigations
EPSTEIN 'ADMITTED TO ME' HE WAS A SPY:
12-23-2019
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https://medium.com by Dylan Howard
Ex-Business Partner Of Sex Criminal Claims Prince Andrew Is Protecting Ghislaine Maxwell, Stonewalling Prosecutors' Investigation Over Blackmail Fears
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News Link • China
China orders Christians to rewrite the Bible for the era of President Xi
12-23-2019
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https://www.dailystar.co.uk By Jamie Micklethwaite
Chinese Communists want all religious texts to fall in with the party line, or they will be rewritten
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News Link • Censorship
Tucker Carlson Says the Heritage Foundation and Other Koch-Funded Groups Secretly Support -
12-23-2019
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https://needtoknow.news by Fox News
-Big Tech's Censorship of Conservatives
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News Link • Seriously?
Toulouse, France: Far-Left Activists Storm Children's Nativity Play and Force It to Shut Down
12-23-2019
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https://needtoknow.news by Breitbart
A group of around 50 far-left activists stormed a nativity play that featured live animals and children playing the characters of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the shepherds.
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News Link • Impeachment
Clinton Impeachment 'Judge': Trump Impeachment Is "Phony"
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Steve Watson
Starr slams Pelosi: "There is an abuse of House power... It is wrong constitutionally."
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Repo Crisis Fades Away --
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
--With Second "Undersubscribed" Turn Repo Even As Pozsar Doubles Down On Doomsday
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News Link • Oil
Expect More Writedowns From Oil Majors
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
On Friday, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it would take a $1.7-$2.3 billion write down for the fourth quarter, another financial blow to an industry dealing with oversupply and low prices.
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News Link • Food
A Forgotten Wild Edible: Pine Bark Flour
12-23-2019
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https://www.askaprepper.com By Kyle B
Bark pealing was a traditional practice amongst the Sami people of northern Scandinavia and of many different indigenous tribes of North America.
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News Link • Stock Market
Cracks In The Bull Market Armor
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Lance Roberts
Last week, I discussed the registering of the monthly buy signals, which confirmed the bull market in the S&P 500 had resumed following the 2018 Fed/Trade induced sell off. Here is a snippet of our history in this regard:
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News Link • Stock Market
$5.6 Trillion Fund Manager Warns Stocks Face "Significant" Risk Of Double-Digit Pullback I
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The head of investment strategy for one of the largest piles of investor capital in the world believes stocks face a "greater-than-usual" risk of a sizable pullback during 2020.
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News Link • General Opinion
Jeffrey Epstein's Brother Fears For His Life
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Jeffrey Epstein's younger brother fears for his safety following his brother's controversial August 'suicide,' according to a pathologist hired by the family.
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News Link • Free Trade
Boris Johnson's Victory Heralds A Golden Era In US-UK Relations
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Con Coughlin
Boris Johnson has only been back in Downing Street a few days following his stunning victory in Britain's general election, but there are already early signs that his premiership will preside over a dramatic revival in transatlantic relations not see
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News Link • Tariffs
China To Cut Tariffs On Pork, Tech And Many Global Imports It Desperately Needs
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
After a phase one trade deal with the US, China said on Monday that it would slash import tariffs on a wide range of goods from around the world to boost domestic consumption.
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News Link • Energy
Lie Of The Day: Going 100% Green Will Pay For Itself In 7 Years
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
A Stanford University professor says the world can go totally green by spending $73 trillion.
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News Link • Impeachment
The Impulse-Buy Impeachment: How The Democrats Yielded To The Holiday-Frenzy Over Facts
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The failure to take a little more time to secure additional witnesses (or court orders against the Administration) has already come back to haunt the House.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Muilenburg Fired As Boeing CEO
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In what was not entirely surprising, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has "resigned" and will be replaced by current Chairman David Calhoun.
CNBC's Phill LeBeau has a slightly different take:
"This was the decision of the board. .. He was fired."
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia Sentences Five To Death For Khashoggi Murder As MbS Aides Walk
12-23-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
The criminal trials of the 11 scapegoats men formally accused of participating in the killing and dismemberment of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi are now over, and the end result was exactly what most expected.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
What are the Limits of Deep Learning? Going Beyond Deep Learning
12-23-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang
Glowing stickers are able to confuse deep learning systems. Deep Learning expert Geoffrey Hinton believes simple adversarial attacks show that Deep Learning has flaws.
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