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Date Sent: 2019-08-31
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, August 31, 2019 |
A Climate Alarmist Sued A Skeptic For Defamation... And Lost
A Climate Alarmist Sued A Skeptic For Defamation... And Lost -- No Idea What's Going On With Brexit? Here Is The "Simplified" Flow Chart -- Check-Mate For Central Banks: Negative Rates & Gold -- Chinese Youth Dangerously Drunk On Debt As Grandparents Roll In Graves -- More People Flee New York Each Day Than Any Other US City -- Meet The Robotic Welder That Will Soon Be Putting Construction Workers Out Of Jobs -- Netanyahu Confirms Israeli Attacks In Iraq -- U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation -- "Money For Nothing And Growth For Free"... -- Leftist Politician Decides Cleaning Poop Off Seattle's Streets With A Pressure Washer Is Racist -- Almost Every Sector of the US Economy Is a Monopoly or an Oligopoly - Crushing the Working Man -- Now Could Be The Time To Sell Your Classic Car Before The Downturn -- Will Chinese troops gun down women and children? -- Apple Apologizes for Letting Contractors Evesdrop on Siri's Sex Recordings -- What Is Justice For McCabe? -- Something Is Negative In The State Of Denmark -- Iranian Tanker Still Bound For Syria; US Working To "Disrupt" Oil Transfer: Report -- Paris knife attack: Seven injured, four seriously
-- Bulls & Bears Enter The Thunderdome -- Hong Kong Police Fire Live Rounds To Quell Protesters As Chaos Rules Streets -- SOUTHWEST BUST -- Green luminous bunnies, bizarre mythical creatures and giant mechanical bugs... -- Bolton sidelined from Afghanistan policy as his standing with Trump falters -- The Death of Arms Control
-- Can Private Cities Help Solve the Refugee Crisis? -- George Harrison on Drug Use and The Rock Star Lifestyle The Dick Cavett Show -- President Bush Was Correct About the Constitution -- What Percentage Of U.S. Workers Are Union Members? -- Beware The Vengeance Of The Afghans
-- Taxi Medallion Debt Catches A Bid After Prices Plunge 90% Over Last Decade --
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News Link • Lawsuits
A Climate Alarmist Sued A Skeptic For Defamation... And Lost
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Onar Am
The Supreme Court of British Columbia recently dismissed a defamation lawsuit by celebrity climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann against global warming skeptic climatologist Dr. Tim Ball.
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News Link • United Kingdom
No Idea What's Going On With Brexit? Here Is The "Simplified" Flow Chart
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
MPs who oppose a no-deal Brexit have joined together across party lines to try and stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 'proroguing' (a fancy term for suspending) Parliament. And as several legal challenges to Johnson's plan make their way through
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Check-Mate For Central Banks: Negative Rates & Gold
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The reason for persistent strength in the price of gold can be found in the changing relationship between time preference for monetary gold, and a new round of interest rate suppression for the dollar.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese Youth Dangerously Drunk On Debt As Grandparents Roll In Graves
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Chinese youth may have more to worry about than their social credit score. According to the Wall Street Journal, China's younger generations are loading up on debt like drunken sailors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • New York
More People Flee New York Each Day Than Any Other US City
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by By Wei Lu
Did someone say higher taxes and higher real estate prices were a good thing, because that doesn't seem to be the case in New York City. In fact, people are fleeing the New York City area in droves, according to Bloomberg.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Meet The Robotic Welder That Will Soon Be Putting Construction Workers Out Of Jobs
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
While claiming to address the "shortage" of skilled welders, a company called Hirebotics has now engineered the first "robotic welding solution for hire".
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu Confirms Israeli Attacks In Iraq
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Recent unprecedented airstrikes on Iraq widely believed to have been carried out by either Israeli drones or stealth jets have been acknowledged by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Friday gave belated confirmation that the Israeli military h
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News Link • Seriously?
U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
08-31-2019
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https://www.msn.com by Pete Norman
Fake news and social media posts are such a threat to U.S. security that the Defense Department is launching a project to repel "large-scale, automated disinformation attacks," as the top Republican in Congress blocks efforts to protect the integ
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News Link • Netherlands
"Money For Nothing And Growth For Free"...
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
News leaked last week that the Dutch coalition government is considering setting up a fund for investing in economic growth.
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News Link • WTF?
Leftist Politician Decides Cleaning Poop Off Seattle's Streets With A Pressure Washer Is Racist
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Mac Slavo
Even though the courthouse and plenty of Seattle's streets are covered in human fecal matter thanks to the socialist policies that have pushed people into poverty, a democrat has decided the streets cannot be cleaned up using a pressure washer. Us
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Almost Every Sector of the US Economy Is a Monopoly or an Oligopoly - Crushing the Working Man
08-31-2019
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arclein
At America's tech leader and having the biggest economy, cellular and internet access should be the cheapest in the world, instead it is the most expensive, and it doesn't work as well. Another article the same day addresses the problem from a dif
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News Link • Transportation
Now Could Be The Time To Sell Your Classic Car Before The Downturn
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Have you ever thought about thinning out your classic car collection? Now could be the time before the antique car market rolls over.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Will Chinese troops gun down women and children?
08-31-2019
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arclein
"This time the task has a glorious mission. The responsibility is great. The job is difficult," an unnamed major said to troops before they departed. "The time for a true test has arrived!"
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News Link • Surveillance
Apple Apologizes for Letting Contractors Evesdrop on Siri's Sex Recordings
08-31-2019
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https://www.youtube.com, Ben Swann
Apple has apologized to its customers for allowing third-party contractors to listen in on audio picked up by Siri.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
What Is Justice For McCabe?
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
The former deputy director's FBI coddled Clinton and addled Trump. Now he seeks clemency... even as he sues the Justice Department...
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News Link • World News
Something Is Negative In The State Of Denmark
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," is one of the most recognizable lines of all time.
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News Link • Iran
Iranian Tanker Still Bound For Syria; US Working To "Disrupt" Oil Transfer: Report
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
As the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 still appears to be circling in Mediterranean waters off western Cyprus after it turned away from approaching Turkey's coast this week, a new Wall Street Journal report says it will ultimately attempt to offlo
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News Link • France
Paris knife attack: Seven injured, four seriously
08-31-2019
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https://www.bbc.com
French police have detained a man who stabbed seven people, injuring four seriously, in an attack on tourists and passers-by in Paris.
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News Link • Stock Market
Bulls & Bears Enter The Thunderdome
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Bull and bear are entering the Thunderdome in September and October and only one will emerge victoriously.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Hong Kong Police Fire Live Rounds To Quell Protesters As Chaos Rules Streets
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Update (10:32AM ET): Authorities fired a live round near Victoria Park as a warning to protesters.
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News Link • Entertainment: Concerts - Theatre - Events
Green luminous bunnies, bizarre mythical creatures and giant mechanical bugs...
08-31-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk
The Burning Man 2019 festival is more than midway through and revelers have been showing off their incredible metamorphosis-themed costumes, from green luminous bunnies and mythical creatures, to festival desert chic.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Bolton sidelined from Afghanistan policy as his standing with Trump falters
08-31-2019
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John Hudson and Josh Dawsey
As the president's top aides prepared for a high-stakes meeting on the future of Afghanistan earlier this month, one senior official was not on the original invite list: national security adviser John Bolton.
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News Link • Russia
The Death of Arms Control
08-31-2019
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https://www.truthdig.com, Scott Ritter
A deadly accident in northern Russia earlier this month caused the U.S. arms control community to stand up and take notice. The Russians claim they were testing "isotopic sources of fuel on a liquid propulsion unit," and that only after the test
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News Link • Refugees
Can Private Cities Help Solve the Refugee Crisis?
08-31-2019
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https://fee.org, Titus Gebel
At present, 70 million people worldwide are fleeing from their homes, mostly as a result of armed conflict. Think of Za'atari, the great tent city, which is composed of 80,000 refugees and NGO workers making it Jordan's fourth-largest city.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
George Harrison on Drug Use and The Rock Star Lifestyle The Dick Cavett Show
08-31-2019
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https://www.youtube.com, The Dick Cavett Show
George Harrison discusses the influence he has over his fans and his experiences in using LSD with The Beatles.
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News Link • Bush Administration
President Bush Was Correct About the Constitution
08-31-2019
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https://thecommonsenseshow.com, by Dave Hodges
President Bush Was Correct About the Constitution. This is, sadly, one of the most tragic posts made in the history of the CSS.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
What Percentage Of U.S. Workers Are Union Members?
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Zach Hrynowski
As Americans prepare to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Labor Day on Monday, Gallup's latest measurement on labor union membership finds that 10% of full- and part-time U.S. workers belong to a union.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Beware The Vengeance Of The Afghans
08-31-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric S. Margolis
After 18 years of war in Afghanistanâ€" America's longest â€" US and Taliban negotiators are said to be close to an agreement that may see the withdrawal of many of the 14,000 US soldiers in that remote nation.
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News Link • New York
Taxi Medallion Debt Catches A Bid After Prices Plunge 90% Over Last Decade
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
After years of taxi medallion prices plunging, leading to a slew of taxi driver suicides that we have documented exhaustively, taxi medallion debt (secured by medallions) has finally caught a bid from an unlikely buyer, according to Bloomberg.
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News Link • Internet
VPN's for Remote Workers: A Beginners Guide for 2019
08-31-2019
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https://www.coworker.com, by Gail Palethorpe
For those that are not computer nerds, a VPN involves technology that adds a security layer to private and public networks, including broadband and internet hotspots.
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News Link • Agriculture
Agricultural add-on pulverizes weed seeds
08-31-2019
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arclein
Such harvesters already have screens inside of them, which are used to separate crop grain from the seeds of weeds that get harvested along with the crop plants. Those unwanted seeds are then expelled out the back of the harvester ?" along with the
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News Link • Science
HUMAN 3.0 Aspergers Syndrome?
08-31-2019
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arclein
Asperger's Syndrome, identified in the 1940s by Hans Asperger, is a subgroup within the autism spectrum in which children display far more significant motor skill delays and obsessive interests, yet fewer issues with speech delays. Asperger's is
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News Link • France
Burgundy's Vineyards Haven't Been This Hot And Dry Since "The Black Death" In The
08-31-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Vintners in France haven't seen such a succession of hot weather and dry harvest since the 14th century, during a time called "the Black Death", according to Bloomberg. Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
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News Link • Activism
Dueling protests break out at "Straight Pride Parade" in Boston
08-31-2019
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https://www.cbsnews.com BY SOPHIE LEWIS
Boston's first-ever "Straight Pride Parade" kicked off in Boston on Saturday to dueling reactions. Dozens of police officers populated the parade route to try to keep the peace as counter-protestors rallied at City Hall.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Super Heavy Starship 2.0 Will Be 8 Times Bigger Than Super Heavy Starship
08-30-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang
The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will be able to launch 100 tons into orbit in a fully reusable basis, but Elon Plans the follow up to be 4 to 8 times bigger. Elon tweeted that Starship Version 2.0 will be 18 meters in diameter instead of 9 meters.
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