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Date Sent: 2018-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, December 17, 2018 |
Escobar: How The New Silk Roads Are Merging Into Greater Eurasia
SHOCKING! GOP senator resigns suddenly -- The Establishment Wants PewDiePie GONE! -- US Commits To "Indefinite" Occupation Of Syria; Controls Region The Size Of Croatia -- BCH Devs Publish Bi-Directional Payment Concept Based on IPFS -- Who Controls Bitcoin Core? Programmer explains. -- A Crackdown on Cash and Bitcoin? Curbing Crime vs. Empowering the Surveillance State -- The Daily: Trump Chooses Bitcoin Advocate as Chief of Staff, Congressman Proposes Wall Coins -- Ukraine's Putschist Regime Planning Belligerent Provocation Along Russia's Border -- The Clinton Foundation Racket -- "Peak TV": Streaming Originals Overtake Basic Cable -- Das: "The Bubble Is Losing Air. Get Ready For A Crisis" -- The Venezuelan Crypto Revolution - Venezuela Will NEVER Be The Same! (with Rod Ambrissi) -- Why Did Google Choose NOW to Remove "Don't Be Evil" Clause from Its Code of Conduct? -- Rocket Lab Launches 13 Cubesats on 1st Mission for NASA -- Quickly Figure Out What the Visa Requirements Are For Every Country With This Site -- US Medicare-For-All & Big-Tech: The Future Of Mass Patient Surveillance -- Why The Senate Vote to End Yemen War is So Important -- Return Engagements (Book One) PART 4… in which my pursuers orient themselves -- Capitalism's Opponents: Wrong About Everything -- Tether, a Crypto Supposedly Pegged to the US Dollar, Moves Into Crypto 4th Spot -- Hillary had a VERY bad week ("foreign agent" BOMBSHELL!) -- Johnson and Johnson Slammed on Report it Knew its Baby Powder Contains Asbestos -- Are Dollar Stores Really Driving Grocers Out of Business? -- 'It's Not Quite the Ant-Man Suit' But Researchers Discover How to Shrink Objects to 1000 -- Inexpensive New 'Virtual Fence' Dramatically Reduces Rates of Road Kill in Australia -- UCLA Surgeons Develop Simple Spray Gel to Super-Charge Immunity and Prevent Cancer From Returning -- PROOF the FBI used unethical entrapment technique to "catch" Michael Flynn… -- Why advertisers are tracking your emojis ???? -- Groups Exposing Israeli High Crimes Receive French Human Rights Award --
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Escobar: How The New Silk Roads Are Merging Into Greater Eurasia
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Pepe Escobar
Russia is keen to push economic integration with parts of Asia and this fits in with China's Belt and Road Initiative...
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News Link • Senate/Senators
SHOCKING! GOP senator resigns suddenly
12-17-2018
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https://thehornnews.com
Sen. Jon Kyl, announced his sudden resignation Friday from the seat he was appointed to less than four months ago following the death of John McCain. The move gives Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey a second opportunity to fill the slot.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Commits To "Indefinite" Occupation Of Syria; Controls Region The Size Of Croatia
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
"We don't want the Americans. It's occupation" -- a Syrian resident in US-controlled Raqqa told Stars and Stripes military newspaper. This as the Washington Post noted this week that "U.S. troops will now stay in Syria indefinitely, controlling a th
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News Link • Bitcoin
BCH Devs Publish Bi-Directional Payment Concept Based on IPFS
12-17-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
On Friday, Openbazaar and Bchd developer, Chris Pacia, revealed a new Bchd project feature currently in the making that would allow for Bitcoin Cash-based bi-directional payment channels. Moreover, in contrast to the Lightning Network, the Bchd devel
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News Link • Bitcoin
Who Controls Bitcoin Core? Programmer explains.
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com - Ivan on Tech
Who are the people in charge of maintaining the Bitcoin Core code repository and what kind of influence does GitHub have over the development process? We also discuss the Lightning Network, as some people in the crypto space claim that Lightning Netw
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News Link • Currencies
A Crackdown on Cash and Bitcoin? Curbing Crime vs. Empowering the Surveillance State
12-17-2018
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https://reason.com
Economists Kenneth Rogoff and Lawrence H. White face off over what the impact would be of a ban on cryptocurrency and phaseout of the $100 bill.
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News Link • Trump Administration
The Daily: Trump Chooses Bitcoin Advocate as Chief of Staff, Congressman Proposes Wall Coins
12-17-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com
In today's edition of The Daily, we feature a couple of stories from the U.S. political scene. President Donald Trump has chosen a known Bitcoin advocate as the Acting White House Chief of Staff. And a congressman proposes to fund the building of a
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
"Peak TV": Streaming Originals Overtake Basic Cable
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
A brand new report from FX Research determined that for the first time, more scripted television shows were released by online streaming platforms like Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix in 2018 than aired on basic cable, pay cable and broadcast television.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Das: "The Bubble Is Losing Air. Get Ready For A Crisis"
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Satyajit Das
The shift to tighter monetary policies in the West is weakening credit markets. Over-indebted emerging markets face headwinds from rising borrowing costs and dollar shortages... Investors need to focus on their response to financial stresses in an er
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News Link • Venezuela
The Venezuelan Crypto Revolution - Venezuela Will NEVER Be The Same! (with Rod Ambrissi)
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
Josh Sigurdson talks with Rodrigo Ambrissi, a YouTuber with a lot of influence in the Dash community who is making videos for Dash Digital Cash in Portuguese. Rod recently published the documentary 'Venezuela And The Cryptocurrency Revolution' on You
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Why Did Google Choose NOW to Remove "Don't Be Evil" Clause from Its Code of Conduct?
12-17-2018
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https://www.theorganicprepper.com
Google used to have an iconic clause in its code of conduct that said, "Don't be evil." Yet the clause was recently and quietly sent down the memory hole.
Given the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing involving Google CEO Sundar Pichai
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rocket Lab Launches 13 Cubesats on 1st Mission for NASA
12-17-2018
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https://www.space.com/42714-rocket-lab-launches-cu
Rocket Lab's ramp-up is going well so far.
The spaceflight startup launched 13 tiny satellites on its first-ever mission for NASA early this morning (Dec. 16), just a month after acing its first commercial flight.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Travel
Quickly Figure Out What the Visa Requirements Are For Every Country With This Site
12-17-2018
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https://lifehacker.com
Earlier this year I traveled to Australia for the first time. I booked the tickets months in advance, made sure I had all the right power adapters, and headed to the airport on my day of departure -- only to find out that U.S. citizens actually need
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Privacy Rights
US Medicare-For-All & Big-Tech: The Future Of Mass Patient Surveillance
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tho Bishop
As tech executives continue to be grilled in front of Congress, the growing Bernie Sanders-wing of the Democratic Party is preparing to push its misnamed "Medicare for All" into the political mainstream after its political gains in the midterms.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Why The Senate Vote to End Yemen War is So Important
12-17-2018
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http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org
Last week something historic happened in the US Senate. For the first time in 45 years, a chamber of the US Congress voted to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Capitalism's Opponents: Wrong About Everything
12-17-2018
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Ron Paul
If there was a more prolific defender of the free market after the 2008 financial crisis than Bob Murphy, I don't know who it was.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Currencies
Tether, a Crypto Supposedly Pegged to the US Dollar, Moves Into Crypto 4th Spot
12-17-2018
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https://moneymaven.io
Tether is extremely controversial. Many doubt if the money is really there. It hasn't been audited, but it's now #4
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Clinton News
Hillary had a VERY bad week ("foreign agent" BOMBSHELL!)
12-17-2018
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https://thehornnews.com/hillary-had-a-very-bad-wee
The Clinton family funneled foreign money like a sieve through its tax-exempt foundation in order to enrich themselves, advance foreign interests, and rip off its few charitable donors.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Johnson and Johnson Slammed on Report it Knew its Baby Powder Contains Asbestos
12-17-2018
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https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/johnson-a
A Reuters report claims Johnson and Johnson repeatedly lied about whether its baby powder contained asbestos.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Are Dollar Stores Really Driving Grocers Out of Business?
12-17-2018
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https://reason.com
Earlier this month, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), a nonprofit advocacy group with offices in Minneapolis, Maine, and Washington, D.C., that "challenges concentrated economic and political power, and instead champions an approach in wh
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'It's Not Quite the Ant-Man Suit' But Researchers Discover How to Shrink Objects to 1000
12-17-2018
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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org
Their Original Size...Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale
It's not quite the Ant-Man suit, but the system produces 3D structures one thousandth the size of the originals.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Inexpensive New 'Virtual Fence' Dramatically Reduces Rates of Road Kill in Australia
12-17-2018
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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org
An innovative new conservation effort in Australia is dramatically reducing the amount of wildlife that are killed by cars and passing traffic.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
UCLA Surgeons Develop Simple Spray Gel to Super-Charge Immunity and Prevent Cancer From Returning
12-17-2018
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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org
A team of researchers have developed a spray-on gel that could prevent cancer from returning to plague a patient after surgery.
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News Link • FBI
PROOF the FBI used unethical entrapment technique to "catch" Michael Flynn…
12-17-2018
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https://www.naturalnews.com
dishonest, lawless "justice" now the norm in America...(Natural News) The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wants the world to know that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was basically tricked by disgraced former FBI h
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Why advertisers are tracking your emojis ????
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
It's not just your Google keywords anymore. Advertisers are developing ads to target consumers based on the emojis they use.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • World News
The Supreme Court Judgement And Scotland's Colonial Status
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com
London's Supreme Court, sitting in judgement on its Scottish colony, has ruled that parts of the Scottish Government's UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill exceed the powers of the Scottish Parliament.
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News Link • Investigations
Mueller Destroyed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000...
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Mueller Destroyed Messages From Peter Strzok's iPhone; OIG Recovers 19,000 New "FBI Lovebird" Texts
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News Link • Investigations
Former FBI SSA Exposes McCabe & Mueller's "Unethtical, Target & Destroy Coercion" Tact
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com Via SaraCarter.com
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz has asked SaraACarter.com to post her letter to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in support of her friend and colleague retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who will be sentenced on Dec. 18.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Integrative medicine hold great potential for alleviating pain better than opioids
12-17-2018
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https://www.naturalnews.com
(Natural News) Integrative medicine approaches, such as acupuncture and yoga, have great potential in treating pain. A review published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia reported that acupuncture, yoga, and other integrative medicine approaches h
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • FBI
FBI Docs Reveal: "Flynn Was Not Lying Or Did Not Think He Was Lying"
12-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Sara Carter
The Special Counsel's Office released key documents related to former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn Friday.
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News Link • Syria
New Rules of engagement between Syria and Israel, as Russia changes its position
12-17-2018
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https://ejmagnier.com by Elijah J Magnier
Syria will adopt a new rule of engagement with Israel now that Russia has taken a tougher and clearer stance on the conflict between Israel and the "Axis of the Resistance".
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Hanson: House Prices Are More Vulnerable Than Most Think
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Mark Hanson
Dear Fellow Housing Market Observers,
This is my last note of the year and it deals with house prices into the next cycle.
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News Link • Communications
Lasers help keep CubeSats on target to handle large data downlinks
12-16-2018
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https://newatlas.com, David Szondy
An MIT team is working on a new aiming system that will allow CubeSats to use lasers for high-bandwidth communications with Earth.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
All Bubbles Must Pop ... The Sooner, The Better
12-17-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
The economic roller-coaster of booms and busts, that we're all forced to ride, is a creation of the Socialistic institution called The Federal Reserve. By manipulating interest rates and by generating money out-of-thin-air, the Fed creates an artific
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News Link • Feminism
Guess What They're Upset About Now!
12-17-2018
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Mark DiceVideo-Guess What They're Upset About
Mark Dice Video-Gender equality in toys explained by a Feminist
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Sears gets approval to pay $25.3 million in bonuses to top execs after filing for bankruptcy
12-17-2018
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https://thehill.com By Aris Folley
A U.S. bankruptcy court on Friday reportedly approved Sears's request to pay as much as $25.3 million in bonuses to the company's top executives and high-ranking employees, just months after the company filed for bankruptcy.
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News Link • Pensions
The Festering Social Rift Over Pensions
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Adam Taggart
Why does he get to retire and I don't?
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News Link • General Opinion
Rich Americans Say Money Trumps Love In Relationships
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
Bloomberg has obtained a new report that reveals the truth about money and relationships in the upper echelon of society.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
California Devastated Utility Proposes $2 Billion Rate Hike To Fund "Wildfire Safety"
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
One month after the stock and bonds of troubled California Utility Pacific Gas & Electric cratered after the company hinted of a liquidity crisis as a result of mounting legal obligations following California's destructive Camp Fire, shocking and inf
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Working On Extraditing "Coup-Plotting" Erdogan Foe Gulen, Turkish FM Claims
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
One month after speculation swirled that as part of the detente between the White House and Turkey - and attempts to silence Turkey's ongoing disclosures of Jamal Khashoggi 's demise at the hands of Saudi operatives - Trump was quietly preparing to e
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient, never-looted tomb discovered in Egypt
12-17-2018
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https://nypost.com By Eileen AJ Connelly
Egypt announced the discovery of an "exceptionally well preserved" ancient tomb--and the best part may be, it's never been looted.
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News Link • Positive News
The Bizarre Viral Story Of The Professor Who Hired Mercenaries To Rescue A Student From ISIS
12-17-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan
An epic and unheard of story of a rescue operation to free a graduate student from ISIS captivity is grabbing world headlines after it was revealed that a professor at a Swedish university financed and put together the whole plan by hiring mercenarie
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Changelings, Fairies and Hat-Man: Strange Tales From Ireland
12-17-2018
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arclein
In the early 90's when I was a kid, pretty much every adult had some sort of 'ghost story.' I'm not even kidding, the amount of stuff I was told was ridiculous, sometimes laughable but quite often terrifying. Personally, I've had a number of ex
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A code for reprogramming immune sentinels
12-17-2018
have identified three essential proteins (PU.1, IRF8 and BATF3) that are required and sufficient to change the identity of mouse cells to make them become dendritic cells instead. They have also confirmed that the same protein cocktail reprograms hum
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News Link • Archaeology
Origins of Humans According to Ancient Sumerians Texts
12-17-2018
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arclein
each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods used to live together, the humans were servants to the gods.
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News Link • Archaeology
Early Scottish immigrants . . . the joke is on me!
12-17-2018
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arclein
This past Wednesday I discovered that the people living in the aboriginal territory of the Scots . . . Ulster, the Atlantic Coast of Scotland and the Orkney Islands, like the Uchee and Creeks, rolled their R's so hard that speakers of other langu
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