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Date Sent: 2018-08-15
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, August 15, 2018 |
Venezuela's PDVSA To Start Using 'El Petro' Next Week
Shadow ban. How I went from 1000 followers a day to zero overnight -- TSA administrator says domestic surveillance program "makes an awful lot of sense" -- WORK WITH US OR DIE Facebook threatens Press saying: 'Work with us or end up in a hospice' -- Household Debt Hits Record High $13.29 Trillion Led by Mortgages, Student Loans -- 50 years in the making, a restored streamliner claims the land speed record -- Hall-Pass Nation -- That Escalated Quickly: The Emerging Market Currency Crisis Of 2018 Threatens To Destabilize... -- Giuliani Drops a BOMB: John Brennan Is the 'Quarterback' Behind RussiaGate... -- Manafort Defense Rests Without Calling A Single Witness -- Forget About Turkey: Asia Is The Elephant In The Room -- Traders Have Never Paid So Much For Crash Protection -- Trump Campaign Sues Omarosa; "Millions" Sought Over Broken NDA -- SMASH & GRABBED Westminster terror attack suspect named... -- Taliban blindside U.S. forces with surprise Afghan offensive -- NIC CRUZ DID ALL HIS MAYHEM WITH POLITICALLY CORRECT TINY CAPACITY MAGAZINES -- America's Lengthening Enemies List -- Manafort trial takes sudden turn as defense rests without calling witnesses -- Sweden Is Burning: Migrant Gangs Unleash Coordinated Fire-Bomb Rampage Across Multiple Cities -- Patriotism Has Been Turned Against Patriots -- Are Amazon's Technocrats Taking Over The DC Swamp? -- Wave After Wave Of Advanced Surveillance Technology Blanketing China -- Israel Is Not a Liberal Democracy -- Senator Richard Burr: A Longtime Fan of Torture -- 9/11 Activist Summit: Titans of Truth (2017) -- Evidence in several Gamma Ray Bursts of events where time appears to repeat backwards -- 08-14-18 -- Allison Bricker - Dr. Phranq Tamburri, NMD = Trump Report (MP3s LOADED) -- FBI Fires Peter Strzok -- What If These Things Were True? -- Bitcoin is a Permissionless, Decentralized Firearm: Cody Wilson is Satoshi Nakamoto --
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News Link • Venezuela
Venezuela's PDVSA To Start Using 'El Petro' Next Week
08-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Irina Slav
Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA will start using the local cryptocurrency El Petro for all its transactions on August 20, President Nicolas Maduro said, as quoted by Sputnik. The president did not mention whether PDVSA's business partne
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News Link • Free Speech
Shadow ban. How I went from 1000 followers a day to zero overnight
08-14-2018
Shadow ban. How I went from 1000 followers a day to zero overnight
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Reported by:
Tim Picciott
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News Link • Transportation Security Agengy/TSA
TSA administrator says domestic surveillance program "makes an awful lot of sense"
08-14-2018
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https://www.cbsnews.com, by KRIS VAN CLEAVE
TSA Administrator David Pekoske said a surveillance program known as "Quiet Skies," which has been criticized for tracking American citizens not suspected of any crimes, "makes an awful lot of sense."
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
WORK WITH US OR DIE Facebook threatens Press saying: 'Work with us or end up in a hospice'
08-14-2018
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https://www.thesun.co.uk, by Natasha Clark
Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships, is said to have told a group of Australian media executives that their businesses would die without their help
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Household Debt Hits Record High $13.29 Trillion Led by Mortgages, Student Loans
08-14-2018
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moneymaven.io by Mike Mish Shedlock
A New York Fed report shows household debt hit a new record high of $13.29 trillion in the second quarter.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World Records
50 years in the making, a restored streamliner claims the land speed record
08-14-2018
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https://newatlas.com, by Nick Lavars
For more than a century the Bonneville Salt Flats has drawn motoring enthusiasts to its vast open plains for its annual Speed Week, and for more than half a century one father-son duo has eyed a history-making run at the event.
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News Link • Currencies
That Escalated Quickly: The Emerging Market Currency Crisis Of 2018 Threatens To Destabilize...
08-14-2018
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
That Escalated Quickly: The Emerging Market Currency Crisis Of 2018 Threatens To Destabilize The Entire Global Financial System
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Trump Administration
Giuliani Drops a BOMB: John Brennan Is the 'Quarterback' Behind RussiaGate...
08-14-2018
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https://russia-insider.com, by Mark Boden
Giuliani Drops a BOMB: John Brennan Is the 'Quarterback' Behind RussiaGate, Guilty of Crimes, Should be Prosecuted (Hannity Video)
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Manafort Defense Rests Without Calling A Single Witness
08-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The defense in Paul Manafort's Alexandria, VA trial on bank and tax fraud charges have rested their case - without calling a single witness to the stand, including Manafort.
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News Link • Asia
Forget About Turkey: Asia Is The Elephant In The Room
08-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Back in November 2016, the BIS picked up on a topic we have often discussed over the years, namely the critical role that dollar abundance (or shortage) plays in defining market stress, and going one step further, published a research report which ma
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News Link • Stock Market
Traders Have Never Paid So Much For Crash Protection
08-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Until very recently, tech stocks were soaring to record highs and a slump in volatility suggested investors brushing aside market risks, trade war concerns, and Central Bank tightening.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Campaign Sues Omarosa; "Millions" Sought Over Broken NDA
08-14-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
President Trump's campaign on Tuesday filed charges against former aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman, claiming she violated a 2016 nondisclosure agreement (NDA) by disparaging the president in her new book, and secretly recording conversations with Trump
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News Link • TERRORISM
SMASH & GRABBED Westminster terror attack suspect named...
08-14-2018
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https://www.thesun.co.uk
SMASH & GRABBED Westminster terror attack suspect named as 'Sudanese immigrant who drove around London looking for targets' before driving car into cyclists
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News Link • TERRORISM
Taliban blindside U.S. forces with surprise Afghan offensive
08-14-2018
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https://www.washingtontimes.com, by Carlo Muñoz
The Taliban are on the verge of dramatically expanding their control over southern and eastern Afghanistan in a surprise offensive that has caught Afghan and U.S. forces off guard and thrown a vexing new wrench into the Trump administration's strat
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News Link • Foreign Policy
America's Lengthening Enemies List
08-14-2018
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AntiWar.com by Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday, deep into the 17th year of America's longest war, Taliban forces overran Ghazni, a provincial capital that sits on the highway from Kabul to Kandahar.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Courtroom and Trials
Manafort trial takes sudden turn as defense rests without calling witnesses
08-14-2018
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https://abcnews.go.com By Katherine Faulders
Attorneys for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who is on trial for financial crimes in federal district court Alexandria, Virginia, will not call additional witnesses to present a defense.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sweden
Sweden Is Burning: Migrant Gangs Unleash Coordinated Fire-Bomb Rampage Across Multiple Cities
08-14-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
Many Swedes were horrified in early 2017 when U.S. President Donald Trump linked immigration to rising crime in Sweden, but an increasing number now agree with him.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Patriotism Has Been Turned Against Patriots
08-14-2018
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
To understand how screwed-up America is, consider that patriotism is now associated with the suppression of dissent.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Are Amazon's Technocrats Taking Over The DC Swamp?
08-14-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news, By: May Jeong
Jeff Bezos, the consummate Technocrat and head of Amazon, is gobbling up the swamp while President Trump seems to welcome the intrusion. Yesterday, as Trump signed the gargantuan $717 billion defense bill, compare Bezos' $10 billion contract to the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Wave After Wave Of Advanced Surveillance Technology Blanketing China
08-14-2018
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https://www.technocracy.news, By Cate Cadell
If a policeman asks to unlock your cellphone, the author concludes "In China, it's not wise to refuse." The only natural outcome of a Technocracy is Scientific Dictatorship where every conceivable detail of your life is examined under a microsc
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel Is Not a Liberal Democracy
08-14-2018
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https://nationalinterest.org, by Paul R. Pillar
Israel does not share many of the most important values of Western liberal democracies, including the United States.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Senate/Senators
Senator Richard Burr: A Longtime Fan of Torture
08-14-2018
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https://original.antiwar.com, by Ray McGovern
Newly released official documents obtained by the National Security Archive showing that CIA Director Gina Haspel directly supervised waterboarding at the first CIA "Black Site" simply confirm what Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Movies
9/11 Activist Summit: Titans of Truth (2017)
08-14-2018
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https://vimeo.com, Newsbud
In 2017 Newsbud presented a one-of-a-kind all-star panel on the 16th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and explored the road forward for a legitimate 9/11 Truth Movement. Now, for the first time, this nearly 3-hour conference is available to t
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Evidence in several Gamma Ray Bursts of events where time appears to repeat backwards
08-14-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Researchers studying six very bright gamma-ray bursts discovered that the pulses composing these GRBs exhibited complex, time-reversible wavelike structures. In other words, each GRB pulse shows an event in which time appeared to repeat itself backwa
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a Permissionless, Decentralized Firearm: Cody Wilson is Satoshi Nakamoto
08-14-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
The path to a cryptocurrency revolution might just run through a sleepy Austin, Texas industrial park, home to offices of Cody Wilson and his company, Defense Distributed in the United States. Parallels exist between downloadable files from a website
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Gina Kynast
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