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Date Sent: 2019-01-20
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, January 20, 2019 |
This Is The Reason Smart TVs Are So Cheap
Greenwich Home Prices Plunge 17% As Manhattan's Weakness Shifts To The Suburbs -- Rendering of SpaceX Heavy Configuration for Superheavy Starship -- CERN chip enables first 3D color X-ray images of the human body -- Looking for Prior Industrial Civilizations in the Geological Record -- This Russian startup wants to put huge ads in space. Not everyone is on board with the idea. -- This Startup Will Let You Have A Younger Person's Blood For $8,000 -- SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: January 20, 2019 Edition -- China Pledges US Buying Spree to Reduce Trade Surplus With US to Zero By 2024 -- Anderson Cooper Caught Spreading Fake Information & Lying About Vaccines Live On CNN -- Joe Rogan - Jordan Peterson's Carnivore Diet Cured His Depression? -- Progressive Pandering - Don't Be So Sure Hyperinflation Can't Hit The U.S. -- Is Stratolaunch ready to fly? Paul Allen's gigantic plane raises its nose off the ground... -- Nigel Farage To Back Another "Vote Leave" Campaign If UK Holds Second Brexit ... -- New trailers: John Wick 3, Game of Thrones, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and more -- Decentralization Is The Solution To The Government Shutdown Problem -- Johns Hopkins, Bristol-Myers Face $1 Billion Suit For Infecting Guatemalan Hookers... -- "Modern Monetary Theory" Is a Joke That's Not Funny -- "Come To Your Senses!" Russia Slams Trump's Space-Based Missile Defense Plans -- Will Globalists Sacrifice The Dollar To Get Their 'New World Order'? -- Brad Pitt, 55, and Charlize Theron, 43, 'are dating and were all over each other last week'. -- 'It's gotta end now!' Trump offers three-year DACA fix for $5.7 billion of wall funding -- Reagan Wannabe Relaunches Reagan's Star Wars -- Turkish Farmers Stand Tall & Proud in GMO-Free Seed Movement! -- Violent Yellow Vest Protests Enter 10th Week -- Credit Card Companies Have No Business Playing Second Amendment Censors -- Silk Road: A Cautionary Tale about Online Anonymity -- Why the Left Can't Lead the Yellow Vests -- Trump offers immigration compromise to end partial shutdown; Dems cool to offer -- NSA Puts Phone Charging Station at Hacker Conference in Plot to Go Viral --
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
This Is The Reason Smart TVs Are So Cheap
01-20-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
A significant reason why a smart TV, or perhaps a new 65-inch 4K smart TV with HDR capability, can be purchased for about $500, is because some manufacturers are harvesting data from users.
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News Link • Housing
Greenwich Home Prices Plunge 17% As Manhattan's Weakness Shifts To The Suburbs
01-19-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
The slump in the upper tiers of the Manhattan real-estate market is already having a knock-on impact in some of the toniest tri-state area real-estate markets - most notably that of Greenwich, Conn., known for being a leafy suburban haven for hedge f
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Rendering of SpaceX Heavy Configuration for Superheavy Starship
01-20-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, Brian Wang
There has been a rendering of SpaceX Superheavy Starship with two additional side boosters. Each side booster would have 31 Raptor engines like the Super heavy first stage.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
CERN chip enables first 3D color X-ray images of the human body
01-20-2019
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https://newatlas.com, Michael Irving
Medical X-ray scans have long been stuck in the black-and-white, silent-movie era.
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News Link • Anthropology
Looking for Prior Industrial Civilizations in the Geological Record
01-19-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
This Russian startup wants to put huge ads in space. Not everyone is on board with the idea.
01-19-2019
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https://www.nbcnews.com By Denise Chow
Swarms of tiny, light-reflecting "cubesats" would come together to form luminous words or logos.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
This Startup Will Let You Have A Younger Person's Blood For $8,000
01-19-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
A graduate of Stanford University - incubator of such famous blood-linked companies as Theranos - has launched a controversial start-up company, called Ambrosia, that will, for a generous fee, replace the blood of older people with that of younger do
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE: January 20, 2019 Edition
01-18-2019
John Semmens
Trump Reversal of Obama School Discipline Policy Harms Minorities
The Trump Administration's intention to eliminate the "racially balanced" regulations promulgated by former President Obama's "Dear Colleague Letter" was condemned by former
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News Link • China
China Pledges US Buying Spree to Reduce Trade Surplus With US to Zero By 2024
01-20-2019
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mish
China pledges to buy over $1 trillion in US goods and services by 2024 to eliminate the trade gap with the US.
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News Link • Media -**QQ**Fake News**QQ**
Anderson Cooper Caught Spreading Fake Information & Lying About Vaccines Live On CNN
01-20-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Arjun Walia
Most people probably aren't surprised at the title of this headline. It's become commonplace to hear about problems with pharmaceutical products, but when it comes to vaccines, many people are still unaware of the potential side effects.
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News Link • Food
Joe Rogan - Jordan Peterson's Carnivore Diet Cured His Depression?
01-19-2019
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https://www.youtube.com, JRE Clips
Joe Rogan asks Jordan Peterson to explain the benefits he's had by adopting a carnivore diet.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Progressive Pandering - Don't Be So Sure Hyperinflation Can't Hit The U.S.
01-19-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Noah Smith
Some progressives back piling on even more debt to pay for social programs. That could be risky...
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Is Stratolaunch ready to fly? Paul Allen's gigantic plane raises its nose off the ground...
01-19-2019
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By MARK PRIGG, CHEYENNE MACDONALD
Is Stratolaunch ready to fly? Paul Allen's gigantic plane raises its nose off the ground in record breaking 126mph taxi test
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News Link • United Kingdom
Nigel Farage To Back Another "Vote Leave" Campaign If UK Holds Second Brexit ...
01-19-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Nigel Farage To Back Another "Vote Leave" Campaign If UK Holds Second Brexit Referendum
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
New trailers: John Wick 3, Game of Thrones, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and more
01-20-2019
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https://www.theverge.com, By Jacob Kastrenakes
I finally got around to watching Roma the other week. It's a fascinating film, telling its story in a way that few others do -- not quite through the intimate portrait of one character, but through a world of contrasts and colliding events.
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News Link • Government
Decentralization Is The Solution To The Government Shutdown Problem
01-20-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Ryan McMaken
The partial shutdown with the federal government has helped, perhaps more than any other recent political event, to illustrate some of the biggest problems that come with centralizing an ever-larger number of government activities within a single, ce
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News Link • Lawsuits
Johns Hopkins, Bristol-Myers Face $1 Billion Suit For Infecting Guatemalan Hookers...
01-20-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Johns Hopkins, Bristol-Myers Face $1 Billion Suit For Infecting Guatemalan Hookers With Syphilis
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"Modern Monetary Theory" Is a Joke That's Not Funny
01-20-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Michael Strain
Yes, a government that issues its own currency can pay its bills. But piling up debt for no urgent reason is lunacy...
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News Link • Military
"Come To Your Senses!" Russia Slams Trump's Space-Based Missile Defense Plans
01-20-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
After what many are describing as Trump's attempted channeling of Reagan's 'Star Wars' program with Thursday's unveiling of a missile defense strategy heavily focused on space as...
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News Link • New World Order
Will Globalists Sacrifice The Dollar To Get Their 'New World Order'?
01-20-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Brandon Smith
Trade is a fundamental element of human survival. No one person can produce every single product or service necessary for a comfortable life, no matter how Spartan their attitude.
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News Link • Hollywood-Entertainment Industry
Brad Pitt, 55, and Charlize Theron, 43, 'are dating and were all over each other last week'.
01-20-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co, By HEIDI PARKER
Brad Pitt, 55, and Charlize Theron, 43, 'are dating and were all over each other last week'... after being introduced by her ex Sean Penn
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News Link • Trump Administration
'It's gotta end now!' Trump offers three-year DACA fix for $5.7 billion of wall funding
01-20-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co, By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
'It's gotta end now!' Trump offers three-year DACA fix for $5.7 billion of wall funding in sweeping reform Pelosi calls a 'non-starter' â€" as top aide says president could STILL declare an emergency and build it on his own
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News Link • Trump Administration
Reagan Wannabe Relaunches Reagan's Star Wars
01-20-2019
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https://www.moonofalabama.org
On December 12 2001 then President Bush pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
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News Link • Turkey
Turkish Farmers Stand Tall & Proud in GMO-Free Seed Movement!
01-20-2019
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https://www.newsbud.com, Sibel Edmonds
A fiery snapshot from my coming video series- Bridge the Gap with Sibel Edmonds, Season One: Strong and determined Farmers in Turkey don't give a hoot about the Laws created by the Money-Lobby.
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News Link • France
Violent Yellow Vest Protests Enter 10th Week
01-20-2019
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mish
Yellow vest protests have simmered down a bit, but this week matched last week in the number of protesters and violence.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Credit Card Companies Have No Business Playing Second Amendment Censors
01-20-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Frank Miniter
Do we want to live in an America where credit card companies watch our buying habits and then block purchases for ideological reasons?
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News Link • Bitcoin
Silk Road: A Cautionary Tale about Online Anonymity
01-20-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Marcell Nimfuehr
Are bitcoin and the Darkweb as anonymous as people think?
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News Link • France
Why the Left Can't Lead the Yellow Vests
01-20-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Fraser Myers
So-called radicals have become fearful of revolts like this one.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump offers immigration compromise to end partial shutdown; Dems cool to offer
01-19-2019
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Fox News
"Our immigration system should be a source of pride, not a source of shame as it is all over the world," Trump said, before urging politicians to "take off their armor" and find solutions.
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Puts Phone Charging Station at Hacker Conference in Plot to Go Viral
01-19-2019
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https://gizmodo.com by Matt Novak
We've all had that moment. Your smartphone battery is running low, and you're desperate for some juice. But just how desperate have you gotten?
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Norway Readies 'Big Brother' GPS-Based Taxation Per Mile-Driven
01-19-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com Via ArmstrongEconomics
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The Norwegian Data Protection Authority is now arguing that GPS based taxation, for the amount of kilometers driven by car, can be done within 5-6 years!
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News Link • Constitution
Doug Casey on the 3rd Amendment ?" Part II
01-19-2019
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internationalman.com, by Doug Case by Joel Bowman
Joel: Interestingly, this is the only amendment to the Constitution that directly addresses the relationship between civilians and the military, both in times of peace and war.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Great danger: Divers spot the world's largest ever recorded great white shark - 2.5 ton 'Dee
01-19-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk By George Martin
-feasting on a dead whale in Hawaii and JUMP IN to take photos
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News Link • Korea/North Korea
White House: Next Trump summit with Kim Jong Un will take place near the end of February
01-19-2019
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https://www.cnbc.com by Amanda Macias
President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will meet for a second time in late February, the White House says.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The National Security Agency Is a Criminal Organization
01-19-2019
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https://russia-insider.com by Paul Craig Roberts
They can blackmail anyone at anytime, anywhere.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Middle school children in Iowa to be given classes on how to handle guns after...
01-19-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co, By GEORGE MARTIN
Middle school children in Iowa to be given classes on how to handle guns after teenager died in accidental shooting
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fannie, Freddie Soar On Report They May Be Released From Government Control
01-19-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Reviving an age-old debate whether the insolvent, bailed-out zombies GSEs, Fannie and Freddie will emerge from conservatorship...
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
PayPal To Provide $25M Of Interest-Free Cash Advances To Unpaid Federal Workers
01-19-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
PayPal is joining a long list of banks offering interest-free loans to unpaid federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown - providing cash advances of up to $500 per employee until they hit $25 million.
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News Link • Stay or Go?
Baseball Is Broken. Can Anything Short of a Strike Fix It?
01-14-2019
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Michael Baumann
Manny Machado and Bryce Harper remain unsigned. One of the sport's best catchers had to settle for a one-year deal. Kyler Murray might play another sport if he can't get paid. Only the players can fix this, but to do so, they'll have to risk a
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Feature Article • Korea/North Korea
US/North Korea Summit 2.0
Stephen Lendman
North Korea - Over seven months after Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held summit talks in Singapore, the US failed to take any meaningful good will steps toward fulfilling mutually agreed on principles.
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News Link • United Kingdom
CRUSHED: Theresa May's Brexit Deal Defeated by Record-Breaking Margin in Parliament
01-19-2019
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https://www.breitbart.com,
Members of Parliament have thrown out Theresa May's contentious Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union in the long-awaited "meaningful vote" on the deal.
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News Link • Crime
This Runner Is a Hitman. His GPS Watch Tied Him to a Mob Boss Murder
01-19-2019
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https://www.runnersworld.com By Riley Missel
The health-conscious assassin was picked up for another murder, then investigators found his Garmin.
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News Link • France
France: Police Shoot Yellow-Vest Protester in the Head from Behind...
01-19-2019
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https://needtoknow.news, DailyMail
Olivier Beziade, a fireman who joined France's Yellow Vest protest movement, is in critical condition after being shot in the head, from behind, by a police officer using a flash-ball gun. An officer can be seen throwing a stun grenade towards the
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump says he will make a 'major' announcement on Saturday about the border and government s
01-19-2019
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https://www.cnbc.com by Christine Wang
President Donald Trump said he will make a "major" announcement on Saturday about the border and ongoing government shutdown.
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News Link • Economy - International
Global Debt Tops 244 Trillion Dollars As "Nearly Half The World Lives On Less...
01-19-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Michael Snyder
Global Debt Tops 244 Trillion Dollars As "Nearly Half The World Lives On Less Than $5.50 A Day"
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
This Russian startup wants to put huge ads in space. Not everyone is on board with the idea.
01-18-2019
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NBC News
Swarms of tiny, light-reflecting "cubesats" would come together to form luminous words or logos.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Mueller team disputes BuzzFeed report claiming Trump told Cohen to lie
01-19-2019
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Fox News
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office on Friday issued an extraordinary statement disputing a bombshell news report that claimed President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in
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News Link • Investigations
Adapt-X cargo trailer folds up when not in use
01-19-2019
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New Atlas
Cargo trailers may be handy for hauling stuff around, but the things do take up a lot of room in a driveway or garage. In response to that problem, Quebec-based Apogee Trailers developed its folding Adapt-X.
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
A Strange Day in Northwest Pennsylvania
01-19-2019
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arclein
Edinboro is really cool because there are a lot of old buildings and strange, flat landscapes as compared to the hilly land around Pittsburgh. So it was cool to have to figure out how to scout the game I'd be going after once the season started. My
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News Link • Social Engineering
Still Fighting the Last War Against Socialism
01-19-2019
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arclein
Today's socialists insist their model society would look like Sweden or Denmark; not the USSR or Nazi Germany or Venezuela. They merely want fairness and equality, free healthcare and schooling, an end to "hoarded" wealth, and so forth. And they d
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News Link • Agriculture
Ending the War on the Non-Drug Known as Hemp
01-19-2019
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arclein
But in 1937, due to the crusade of Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics that was facing budget cuts during the Great Depression, cannabis was criminalized. When the law was passed, there was concern that it would be used to stamp
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News Link • Science
Quasar shines with light of 600 trillion suns
01-19-2019
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arclein
Though the quasar is very far away?"12.8 billion light-years?"astronomers can detect it because a galaxy closer to Earth acts as a lens and makes the quasar look extra bright. The gravitational field of the closer galaxy warps space itself, bendi
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ocasio-Cortez Delivers A Message: Should We Care?
01-18-2019
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
The foundation and root of Socialist ideas are government power and violent force. Socialist governments, both past and present, have produced the largest death counts (of their own citizens) without question. They're in a league of their own. With t
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News Link • Trump Administration
Read Trump's letter to Pelosi postponing her foreign trip amid government shutdown
01-18-2019
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https://www.foxnews.com
Dear Madame Speaker, Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan has been postponed...
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News Link • Currencies
The Daily: Shapeshift Shares Compliance Requests, Grin Woos Bitcoin Maximalists
01-18-2019
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https://news.bitcoin.com
In Friday's edition of The Daily, Shapeshift emulates Kraken by sharing details of the compliance requests it fields from law enforcement. We also look at the Bitcoin maximalists who just can't stop making eyes at the latest privacy coin on the b
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