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Date Sent: 2020-04-02
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Friday, April 3, 2020 |
DATA OR DECEIT? : THE COVID-19 PEAK (Publisher Recommended)
United Nations Proposes New "Global Currency" -- Will 401(k)s Be Nationalized? -- Interview 1531 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato -- Fed's New Repo Measures Followed a $100 Billion Treasury Exodus -- If The Virus Hadn't Caused The Crash, Something Else Would Have -- Five Days Before It Filed For Bankruptcy, Whiting Execs Got $15 Million In Bonuses -- Fauci Says Lockdown Will Continue Until There Are No "New Cases" Of COVID-19 -- Fooled -- Doug Casey on the Disturbing Trend to Tax Savings and Eliminate Cash -- Trump to Consider Domestic Air Travel Ban for 30 Days -- US Factory Orders Disappoint In February... Before Lockdowns Even Began -- Peter Zeihan Presents Disunited Nations: The Trade Breakdown | Upfront Summit 2020 -- Citizen Gorbachev Speaks -- Markets Now At Tipping Point -- US Auto Sales Plunge To Lowest In A Decade, But The Worst Is Yet To Come In Q2 -- Instead Of Firing Everyone, Boeing Offers "Voluntary Buyouts" To Its Entire Workforce -- "Eddie's Not With Us At This Time": Engineer Intentionally Wrecks Train In Attack On U -- Twitter Removes Tweet Reporting 'Hydroxychloroquine' As Treatment For Wuhan Virus -- What Is America Going To Look Like With Tens Of Millions Of Unemployed Workers? -- We Are Living Through a Mass Panic - It Is NOT Justified by the Facts -- The Federal Reserve's One Last Hail Mary -- "This Is Turning Into A Disaster" -- Wall Street Wins Again: Banks Force Treasury To Double Rate On Small Business Rescue Loan -- LA engineer deliberately tries to plow TRAIN into hospital ship USNS Mercy in an effort... -- Stratolaunch hypersonic vehicle to launch from world's largest plane -- Why The Counter-Economy Is Becoming More Important For You By The Day -- Take Rights Seriously, Even During a Pandemic -- What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism? -- Richard Branson Wants a Virgin Atlantic Bailout. Really? --
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News Link • Pandemic
DATA OR DECEIT? : THE COVID-19 PEAK (Publisher Recommended)
04-02-2020
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The HighWire with Del Bigtree
As the U.S. shutdown continues, Americans are divided. Is the panic surrounding death rates justified, or is it blown out of proportion? The only way to answer this question is to dig into the real numbers.
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News Link • United Nations
United Nations Proposes New "Global Currency"
04-02-2020
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https://www.cbsnews.com, By Declan McCullagh
The United Nations would like the dollar, euro, yen, and other national currencies to be succeeded by a new "global currency."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Will 401(k)s Be Nationalized?
04-02-2020
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https://www.fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
Amidst all the glee over Congress's $2 trillion "stimulus" package, an important and relevant question naturally arises: Will the federal government end up nationalizing and confiscating people's retirement accounts to pay for the ever-burgeo
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News Link • Corbett Report
Interview 1531 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
04-02-2020
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https://www.corbettreport.com, Corbett
Welcome to the 403rd episode of New World Next Week -- the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed's New Repo Measures Followed a $100 Billion Treasury Exodus
04-02-2020
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Stephen Spratt and Liz Capo McCormick
The Federal Reserve is trying to call time on a fire sale of Treasuries by foreign governments and central banks.
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News Link • Stock Market
If The Virus Hadn't Caused The Crash, Something Else Would Have
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Satyajit Das
The novel coronavirus has already had a significant impact on the global economy, which will worsen if the outbreak and the shutdowns designed to contain it continue for very long.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Five Days Before It Filed For Bankruptcy, Whiting Execs Got $15 Million In Bonuses
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Just days Whiting Petroleum it became the first shale casualty of the current oil price crash, when it filed for prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday morning after the plunge in oil prices left it unable to pay its debts, the company's boar
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News Link • Trump Administration
Fauci Says Lockdown Will Continue Until There Are No "New Cases" Of COVID-19
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Paul Joseph Watson
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci says that the United States will not come out of lockdown until there are no "new cases" of coronavirus, prompting some to question precisely how long that will be.
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News Link • General Opinion
Fooled
04-02-2020
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Antony Mueller
How Gullible Politicians Promoted the Destruction of the Global Economy and Threw Us into the Abyss of Serfdom
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News Link • Cashless Society
Doug Casey on the Disturbing Trend to Tax Savings and Eliminate Cash
04-02-2020
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Doug Casey
International Man: Let's start with the basics. What exactly are negative interest rates? Could they exist in a free market without state intervention?
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Trump to Consider Domestic Air Travel Ban for 30 Days
04-02-2020
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https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk by Mish
"We are looking at the whole thing," said Trump regarding a domestic air shutdown.
At the urging of Senator Lindsey Graham, Trump Considers Domestic Air Travel Restrictions.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
US Factory Orders Disappoint In February... Before Lockdowns Even Began
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
After a surprise tumble in January (before the virus impacts really hit), US Factory Orders were expected to rebound modestly in February (data released today and still lagging the current effects of the lockdowns and supply chain disruptions).
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Zeihan Presents Disunited Nations: The Trade Breakdown | Upfront Summit 2020
04-02-2020
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https://www.youtube.com, Upfront Ventures
Geopolitical strategist and author Peter Zeihan explains how we got to the current state of geopolitics and the changing demographics across the global superpowers that will impact our coming economy.
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News Link • Stock Market
Markets Now At Tipping Point
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Michael Markowski
The market indices of the US, Japan, South Korea, Canada, France and Germany and the share prices for many of the world's largest companies including Apple and Microsoft are at the tipping point.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
US Auto Sales Plunge To Lowest In A Decade, But The Worst Is Yet To Come In Q2
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
As we predicted in a a report we published just days ago, the U.S. auto industry is on the verge of total collapse. Numbers out of major automakers on Wednesday this week confirmed a worst case scenario: that the global pandemic is doing severe (and
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Instead Of Firing Everyone, Boeing Offers "Voluntary Buyouts" To Its Entire Workforce
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
When Boeing requested a $60 billion bailout from the US government a few weeks ago, the implicit assumption was that the company may get some of this funding as long as the chronic stock repurchaser did not engage in layoffs.
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News Link • WTF?
"Eddie's Not With Us At This Time": Engineer Intentionally Wrecks Train In Attack On U
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Jonathan Turley
There are many surreal aspects to this pandemic but Eduardo Moreno is still something of a stand out.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Twitter Removes Tweet Reporting 'Hydroxychloroquine' As Treatment For Wuhan Virus
04-02-2020
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https://thefederalist.com, By Chrissy Clark
Twitter removed a tweet from Fox New host Laura Ingraham that suggested hospitals using hydroxychloroquine as treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus are showing promising results, despite the FDA's approval of the drug for emergency use.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
What Is America Going To Look Like With Tens Of Millions Of Unemployed Workers?
04-02-2020
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by Michael Snyder
In all of U.S. history, we have never seen a spike in unemployment like we are witnessing right now.
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News Link • World News
We Are Living Through a Mass Panic - It Is NOT Justified by the Facts
04-02-2020
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https://russia-insider.com, The Z Man
Mass panics are a known phenomenon throughout history. We're in the middle of one.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve's One Last Hail Mary
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Alexander Deluce
Over the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve has been in utter desperation mode to try to revive and keep the American economy on life support.
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News Link • Wall Street
Wall Street Wins Again: Banks Force Treasury To Double Rate On Small Business Rescue Loan
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Update (1800ET): And so Wall Street wins again.
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News Link • Conspiracies
LA engineer deliberately tries to plow TRAIN into hospital ship USNS Mercy in an effort...
04-02-2020
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https://www.dailymail.co, By RACHEL SHARP
LA engineer deliberately tries to plow TRAIN into hospital ship USNS Mercy in an effort to 'wake people up' to conspiracy that it's part of a government plot and not to ease coronavirus burden
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Stratolaunch hypersonic vehicle to launch from world's largest plane
04-02-2020
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https://newatlas.com, By Nick Lavars
Stratolaunch, the company behind the world's largest plane, has unveiled plans for a hypersonic vehicle it hopes will offer customers a way of rapidly testing advanced flight technologies.
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News Link • Constitution
Take Rights Seriously, Even During a Pandemic
04-02-2020
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by Andrew P. Napolitano
"If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."
~ Justice George Sutherland (1862-1942)
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News Link • Pandemic
What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?
04-02-2020
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https://www.fff.org, by Richard M. Ebeling
The coronavirus crisis that has enveloped the world has brought about calls for society and economy-wide action on the part of governments that has been matched by the imposing of radical shutdowns and compulsory mass quarantining as tens of millions
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Richard Branson Wants a Virgin Atlantic Bailout. Really?
04-02-2020
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https://www.msn.com, Chris Bryant
In 2017, the British billionaire Richard Branson agreed to cut his stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. to just 20% by selling one-third of the airline to Air France-KLM.
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News Link • FBI
The FBI Is Routinely Screwing Up FISA Warrants Targeting Americans
04-02-2020
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https://reason.com, SCOTT SHACKFORD
Carter Page was not an anomaly.
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News Link • Oil
Russia, Saudis Deny Trump "Expectation" Of 10 Million bpd Oil Production Cut
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
(Update 1330ET): Well, it appears that we officially have no deal, because moments ago Russia's energy minister Novak made it clear that instead of cutting supply, Moscow will wait for demand to return:
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News Link • Bush Administration
Who are the Narco-Terrorists: George H. Walker Bush: The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel
04-02-2020
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www.globalresearch.ca, Prof Michel Chossudovsky
n December 2019, Donald Trump offered to intervene in Mexico, i.e. "to go after the Drug Cartels". The Mexican president turned down Trump's generous offer.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Trump, Pelosi Eye 2017 Tax Rollbacks In Next Virus Bill
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are looking at rolling back some of the more controversial pieces of the 2017 tax overhaul, as the White House and Congress hammer out the next round of economic stimulus.
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News Link • Stock Market
"S&P500 Could Decline To 1,600" - Stocks Facing Worst Outlook Since 2008
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Peter Garnry
Summary: With all the major central banks expected to be effectively zero bound in 2020, the scope for returns in bonds will be low for years to come.
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News Link • New York
New York City Current Business Conditions Plunges To Lowest Reading On Record
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
At the depths of both the post dot-com bubble and the financial crisis, the New York City Purchasing Manager Current Business Conditions index, a relatively obscure indicator which focuses on the economy of the financial capital of the world, slumped
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
"US Labor Market Is In Free-Fall"
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
- 10 Million Americans Have Filed For Unemployment In Past 2 Weeks
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News Link • Pandemic
How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic
04-02-2020
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https://www.ted.com, Bill Gates
Philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates offers insights into the COVID-19 pandemic, discussing why testing and self-isolation are essential, which medical advancements show promise and what it will take for the world to endure this crisis.
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
What Parents Can Really Do to Help Prepare Their Teens for Success
04-02-2020
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https://fee.org, Kerry McDonald
Unfortunately, entrepreneurship is woefully neglected in schools and standard extracurriculars.
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News Link • Government
Dr. Tony Fauci confirms 'disturbing' threats against him as he reassures interviewer...
04-02-2020
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https://www.dailymail.co, By GEOFF EARLE
Dr. Tony Fauci confirms 'disturbing' threats against him as he reassures interviewer his hoarse voice is from giving too many briefings
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News Link • Agriculture
Dairy Farmers Dumping Milk as Demand Vanishes
04-02-2020
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https://www.breitbart.com, JOHN CARNEY
The economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus has caused shortages of some consumer staples and crashing demand for others.
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News Link • Germany
Germans snitch on neighbours flouting virus rules, in echo of the Stasi past
04-02-2020
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https://news.trust.org, By Madeline Chambers
Law-abiding Germans are zealously helping police crack down on people flouting new social distancing rules aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus by reporting on strangers, neighbours and friends.
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News Link • Finland
Finland is told its welfare state can't cope with virus fallout
04-02-2020
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https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca, Kati Pohjanpalo
How Finland Balances Climate Change and Economic Growth
One of the world's best-funded welfare states is starting to crack as the fallout of the coronavirus triggers mass unemployment.
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News Link • Philippines
Duterte tells Philippine police to shoot dead lockdown troublemakers
04-02-2020
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https://news.yahoo.com, AFP
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told security forces they should shoot dead anyone causing "trouble" in areas locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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News Link • Military
Absurdity and the Army: The myth of 'readiness' in the corona-age
04-02-2020
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https://responsiblestatecraft.org, by Danny Sjurse
Banality may mask absurd tragedy. The Pentagon specializes in such veiled bromides. If anything, this Age of Corona is thus illustrative.
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News Link • Philippines
"Shoot Them Dead!" Philippines President Calls For Death of Lock down Violators
04-02-2020
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https://www.youtube.com, Ben Swann
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has instructed police to shoot protestors who violate the nation's #Coronavirus lock down orders
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News Link • Censorship
German journalist video banned by YouTube exposing EMPTY virus '
04-02-2020
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https://twitter.com/davidicke
'emergency hospital' and including doctors and specialists demolishing the official narrative now available to watch here.
https://www.davidicke.com/article/566782/billy-six-deckt-corona-schauspiel-auf
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
DNC Postpones Presidential Convention Until August 17
04-02-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
While hardly a big surprise with the country on indefinite lockdown, moments ago Politico reported that the Democratic National Committee is postponing the party's presidential convention in Milwaukee by one month to August 17, the week before the
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News Link • Pandemic
Will COVID-19 Kill the Constitution?...
04-02-2020
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https://townhall.com, Jacob Sullum Jacob Sullum
The great American jurist St. George Tucker, writing at the beginning of the 19th century, called the right to armed self-defense "the true palladium of liberty" and "the first law of nature." But California Gov. Gavin Newsom thinks that right, guara
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News Link • How To
Making Springs At Home
04-02-2020
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https://www.youtube.com, This Old Tony
Short video on winding your own springs at home on the lathe.
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News Link • Books
A light in the Darkness
04-02-2020
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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org by Paul Craig Rob
Diana Johnstone's just published book, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher, is the best book I have ever read, the most revealing, the most accurate, the most truthful, the most moral and humane, the most sincere and heartfelt, and th
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News Link • Free Speech
The Newspeaking "Free" Press
04-02-2020
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Tim Hartnett
The woman on the street can have a hard time understanding what some journalists think free speech is these days. Craig Aaron is the president and CEO of an organization known as "Free Press".
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News Link • Deep State- Shadow Government
Putchists in the Shadow of the Coronavirus
04-02-2020
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Thierry Meyssan
While the public's eyes are riveted on the progression of coronavirus numbers, a profound reorganization of the executive is taking place, giving primacy to senior health officials over policy.
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News Link • General Opinion
No March on Rome, Even
04-02-2020
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Eric Peters
The country is under slow-motion house arrest on the now-limitless authority of people who didn't even have to march on Rome to snatch it.
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News Link • Books
Why JFK Went to Texas
04-02-2020
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Phillip F. Nelson
JFK: "He* sure seemed anxious for me to go to Texas"
* John Connally (ergo, Lyndon Johnson) after Connally's White House visit six weeks before The Big Event
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News Link • Books
Reflecting on Crisis and Leviathan in the Age of the Pandemic
04-02-2020
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Nicholas J. Kaster
Not very long ago, President Trump tweeted, "We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself."
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News Link • Pandemic
Coronavirus Missives from the Philippines, USA, France, Lebanon and Germany
04-02-2020
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https://www.lewrockwell.com by Linh Dinh
In Singapore, you can be jailed for half a year for failing to keep "social distance." The same offense in New York will only get you fined for up to $500, although an 86-year-old woman has just been killed when she got too close to someone at a
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News Link • Future Predictions
What Will Be the New Normal After the COVID-19 Lockdown Ends?
04-02-2020
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https://www.targetliberty.com
This is an excellent segment by Laura Ingraham, pretty much start to finish.
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News Link • General Opinion
The Scariest Thing That Bill Gates Just Did During This Period of COVID-19 Panic
04-02-2020
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https://www.targetliberty.com
Make no mistake about it, Bill Gates has strong authoritarian instincts.
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News Link • General Opinion
'Culling' the old & weak:
04-02-2020
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https://www.rt.com by Neil Clark
Eugenics and social Darwinism rear their ugly heads in the Covid-19 pandemic
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