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Date Sent: 2019-04-14
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, April 15, 2019 |
Demographic Doom? The Number Of Children Per Household Is Collapsing
Even With Record Immigration, The Pace Of Japan's Population Decline Is Accelerating -- Demographic Doom? The Number Of Children Per Household Is Collapsing -- A Collapse In 2009 Was Always A Sure Thing...Just Like Recession (Or Worse) In 2019 -- Trump Admits It's The Fed's "Job" To Push Stocks Higher -- Google's Wing Launches Commerical Drone Delivery Service In Australia -- Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp Suffer World-Wide Outage -- Jim Grant: "The World-Wide Suppression Of Interest Rates Has Been A Crime" -- Russia Says 'New World Order' Being Formed -- ALAN GREENSPAN: ECONOMY WILL BE CRUSHED "VERY DRAMATICALLY"... -- IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador -- New concerns Trump administration may be laying legal groundwork for military action against Iran -- Tiger WINS The Masters... -- Las Cruces, N.M. pleads for help amid migrant dropoffs: 'This is going to be an ongoing event' -- America Is No Longer A Nation -- Annexation may provide the key to unlocking Netanyahu's legal troubles -- Tucker Carlson Puts Assange's Deeds and Arrest in Perspective -- 2019 is the year when the farming industry began to unravel... -- New York DA Knew Clinton Pal Epstein Was "Dangerous Pedophile"... -- If we lose WikiLeaks, we lose a whole stratum of freedom -- Pilger -- The Coming Economic Hell For American Families -- The Navy Plans to Put HELIOS Laser Weapon on Destroyer by 2021 -- Hacker group posts hundreds of law officer records -- Why Is Europe Trying To Sabotage Iran's Nuclear Deal? - (Updated) -- College (As We Knew It) Is Broken In The USA -- Lacy Hunt Blasts MMT, Fears Hyperinflation If Implemented -- Make Stock Buybacks Illegal? -- The Obvious Dirty Dealings Behind Julian Assange's Arrest -- France Passes Bill to Allow Insurance Providers to Invest In Crypto & Tokens -- Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years -- "Big Brother Is Watching": Facebook 'Accidentally' Includes Secret ... --
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News Link • Japan
Even With Record Immigration, The Pace Of Japan's Population Decline Is Accelerating
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
As we've reported, the greatest long-term threat to the Japanese economy is a profusion of sexless men - termed "soshoku danshi", or herbivores, the modern parlance - who are more interested in anime and used panty vending machines than they are in l
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News Link • Communities
Demographic Doom? The Number Of Children Per Household Is Collapsing
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Forget debt and deflation: the biggest threat to the global economy and the future of modern civilization as we know it, may be demographics, according to a recent Euromonitor study.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Collapse In 2009 Was Always A Sure Thing...Just Like Recession (Or Worse) In 2019
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Chris Hamilton
I recently detailed why a recession is imminent based on a few factors, chiefly full employment among the working age segments of the population and minimal population growth among the same segments, detailed HERE.
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News Link • Stock Market
Trump Admits It's The Fed's "Job" To Push Stocks Higher
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
When President Trump demanded earlier this month that the Fed should cut interest rates to undo some of the damage it has done to the economy with its pernicious rate hikes, we pointed out the obvious dissonance between advocating for rate cuts while
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News Link • Australia
Google's Wing Launches Commerical Drone Delivery Service In Australia
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
The startup air delivery service Wing, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, has launched a drone-based commercial delivery service in Australia.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp Suffer World-Wide Outage
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Almost a month to the day after Facebook experienced its worst outage ever, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are again experiencing worldwide outages that started around 6:30 am Eastern, triggering a flurry of complaints on rival social networks lik
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News Link • Economy - International
Jim Grant: "The World-Wide Suppression Of Interest Rates Has Been A Crime"
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Christoph Gisiger
James Grant, editor of the renowned investment newsletter «Grant's Interest Rate Observer», warns about the growing herd of corporate «zombies» and other fatal market distortions caused by modern monetary policy.
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News Link • Russia
Russia Says 'New World Order' Being Formed
04-14-2019
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https://tsarizm.com, by L Todd Wood
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared today that the Western, liberal model of society is dying, and a new world order is taking its place
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News Link • Equador
IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador
04-14-2019
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https://www.enca.com
The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $4.2-billion, three-year loan for Ecuador, part of a broader aid package to help support the government's economic reform program.
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News Link • Trump Administration
New concerns Trump administration may be laying legal groundwork for military action against Iran
04-14-2019
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https://abcnews.go.com, By Conor Finnegan
Congress is making clear Trump does not have the authority for military action.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Tiger WINS The Masters...
04-14-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Keith Griffith
Tiger Woods has won the 83rd Masters tournament in an astonishing comeback after 14 years since he last secured a green jacket.
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News Link • New Mexico
Las Cruces, N.M. pleads for help amid migrant dropoffs: 'This is going to be an ongoing event'
04-14-2019
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https://www.washingtontimes.com, AP
Border Patrol agents dropped off asylum-seeking migrants in New Mexico's second most populous city for the second day in a row Saturday, prompting Las Cruces city officials to appeal for donations of food and personal hygiene items and a state medi
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News Link • United States
America Is No Longer A Nation
04-14-2019
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www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Roberts
The America in which I grew up and lived my early adult life was a nation. Over the course of my life I have watched my country turn into a Tower of Babel.
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News Link • Israel
Annexation may provide the key to unlocking Netanyahu's legal troubles
04-14-2019
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https://www.jonathan-cook.net, The National
After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Tucker Carlson Puts Assange's Deeds and Arrest in Perspective
04-14-2019
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Seraphim Hanisch
Tucker Carlson stands almost alone in telling the truth about Julian Assange, both what he did â€" and did not do.
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News Link • Agriculture
2019 is the year when the farming industry began to unravel...
04-14-2019
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http://www.thebigwobble.org
2019, will be the year when the farming industry began to unravel as China, who produce half of the world's pork is set to drop by almost one-third because 200 million pigs are to be culled or die from being infected as African swine fever spreads th
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News Link • Clinton News
New York DA Knew Clinton Pal Epstein Was "Dangerous Pedophile"...
04-14-2019
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
Since the Miami Herald exposed the sweetheart deal given to billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier who fraternized with Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, lawyer Alan Dershowitz and other famous and powerful people, his victims and th
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News Link • Wikileaks
If we lose WikiLeaks, we lose a whole stratum of freedom -- Pilger
04-14-2019
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https://www.rt.com
The US attempt to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a spiteful assault on civil freedoms conducted by an ailing superpower that is struggling to preserve its dominance, UK-based journalist John Pilger told RT.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Coming Economic Hell For American Families
04-14-2019
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Tens of millions of American families are about to go through economic hell and most of them don't even realize it.
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News Link • Military
The Navy Plans to Put HELIOS Laser Weapon on Destroyer by 2021
04-14-2019
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https://www.popularmechanics.com, By Kyle Mizokami
HELIOS will be capable of downing drones and "burning boats".
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hacker group posts hundreds of law officer records
04-14-2019
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https://www.apnews.com
Authorities were investigating Saturday the online posting by a hacker group of the personal information of hundreds of federal agents and police officers apparently stolen from websites affiliated with alumni of the FBI's National Academy.
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News Link • Iran
Why Is Europe Trying To Sabotage Iran's Nuclear Deal? - (Updated)
04-14-2019
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https://www.moonofalabama.org, B
The Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), limits Iran's nuclear activities for 15 years. After that period Iran would still be bound by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its Additional Protocol. But Iran would be f
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News Link • Education: Colleges and Universities
College (As We Knew It) Is Broken In The USA
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Alex Mitchell
The system of higher education in the United States is being rebuilt from the foundation and we've only just started to see the impact of this dramatic transformation.
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News Link • Inflation
Lacy Hunt Blasts MMT, Fears Hyperinflation If Implemented
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Mike Shedlock
In the Hoisington First Quarter Review, Lacy Hunt blasts MMT as "self-perpetuating" inflation.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Obvious Dirty Dealings Behind Julian Assange's Arrest
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Kit Knightly via Off
The US has been planning to have Julian Assange handed over for a longtime, that much is obvious.
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News Link • France
France Passes Bill to Allow Insurance Providers to Invest In Crypto & Tokens
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Helen Partz
French insurance markets can now invest in cryptocurrencies, following the passage of a new law, foreign exchange news agency FXStreet reports April 11.
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News Link • Silk Road-Ross Ulbricht
Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years
04-14-2019
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https://motherboard.vice.com, By Joseph Cox
For years, the arrest and case has been kept under-wraps. Friday, a court sentenced Thomas White to 5 years and 4 months for his role in running a huge dark web drug marketplace.
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News Link • Venezuela
Russian Troops in Venezuela: A Syria-Like Proxy War in Latin America?
04-14-2019
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https://www.newsbud.com,PROFESSOR FILIP KOVACEVIC
In the hundred-and-sixth edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the front-page articles from four Russian newspapers:
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News Link • Israel
Israel SpaceIL Has Funding for Second Moon Landing Attempt
04-14-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Morris Kahn, the primary sponsor of SpaceIL's Beresheet spacecraft, announced on Saturday evening the funding of a second Israeli spacecraft, Beresheet 2.0.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Qualcomm Aims for Quantum AI Chips
04-14-2019
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Qualcomm said it plans to begin testing its new Cloud AI 100 chip with partners such as Microsoft Corp later this year, with mass production likely to begin in 2020.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
JULIAN ASSANGE LANGUISHES IN PRISON AS HIS JOURNALISTIC...
04-14-2019
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https://theintercept.com, Charles Glass
JULIAN ASSANGE LANGUISHES IN PRISON AS HIS JOURNALISTIC COLLABORATORS BRANDISH THEIR PRIZES
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News Link • Stock Market
"You Are Here..."
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, John Hussman
There are three principal phases of a bull market: the first is represented by reviving confidence in the future of business;
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News Link • Bitcoin
Tom Lee's Bitcoin Misery Index Hits Highest Value Since 2016 In Possible Bull Signal
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Mari Huillet
Wall Street strategist and co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors Thomas Lee revealed on April 11 that his "Bitcoin Misery Index" (BMI) recently hit its highest figure since June 2016. He suggested the data could be a good or a bad sign.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The synchronized global slowdown has hit Apple's iOS App Store downloads...
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
The synchronized global slowdown has hit Apple's iOS App Store downloads for the first time in years, according to a new report from Morgan Stanley, first reported by 9to5Mac.
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News Link • United Kingdom
Albert Edwards: "At This Point You Realize Something Has Gone Very Wrong"
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
In his latest note published last week, SocGen's Albert Edwards - never at a loss subjects that inspire his outrage - rages on the topic of Brexit, and specifically the often repeated assertion (discussed here as well), that post-Brexit referendum UK
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News Link • Korea/North Korea
Kim Jong Un Appoints More Generals In Military Shakeup While Extending Hand...
04-14-2019
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Kim Jong Un Appoints More Generals In Military Shakeup While Extending Hand To Trump
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News Link • Equador
PINCHED Julian Assange 'was kicked out of Ecuador embassy for sharing photo...
04-14-2019
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https://www.thesun.co.uk, By Alex Matthews
Assange is accused of leaking a picture of Ecuadorian premier Lenin Moreno dining on lobster in a luxury hotel room
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News Link • Military
The U.S. Army Selects New Submachine Gun
04-14-2019
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https://www.popularmechanics.com, By Kyle Mizokami
The Swiss-made Brugger and Thomet APC9K is the Army's first official subgun since World War II.
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News Link • Movies
Detroit couple creates Netflix-like service with pro-socialist programming
04-14-2019
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https://www.freep.com, JC Reindl
A young Detroit couple who helped controversial New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez win election last year as a democratic socialist are now launching a pro-socialism media company from their house on the city's east side.
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News Link • United States
After 7 Years of Deceptions About Assange, the US Readies for its First Media Rendition
04-14-2019
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https://original.antiwar.com, by Jonathan Cook
For seven years, from the moment Julian Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong, that we were paranoid conspiracy theorists.
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News Link • United States
Tucker: We Have Troops In 158 Countries But 'Not On Our Southern Border'
04-14-2019
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Chris Menahan
Tucker Carlson delivered an epic monologue on Tuesday night highlighting how Max Boot and permanent Washington support "sending somebody else's kids to a foreign country" to fight in neocon wars but are vehemently opposed to sending troops to o
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News Link • Australia
'Within 45 minutes the redness had decreased'...
04-14-2019
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Laura House
An Australian mother who had 'tried everything' to cure her little girl's painful eczema has revealed how a simple $49.95 oil eased it in just 12 hours.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
World's biggest airplane takes flight for the first time ever
04-13-2019
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The Verge
Stratolaunch's rocket-launching plane took off early Saturday morning and safely landed two hours later
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