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Date Sent: 2015-08-13
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, August 13, 2015 |
Peter Schiff: Impending U.S. Dollar Collapse should Get Attention, not China's Devaluation
Study Shows Deaths from Dangerous Painkillers Plummet in States with Legal Weed -- Do Christians And Conservatives Really Desire A Police State? -- NASA eyes Bigelow Aerospace's B330 for possible deep space use -- Armed militias celebrate victory in Montana mine stand-off with federal govt -- 08-13-15 -- Dr. Phranq Tamburri provides the weekly Trump Report (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Understanding Why the Clinton Emails Matter -- Armed Oath Keepers Spark Unrest During Ferguson Protest -- Ron Paul Under Attack -- Chelsea Manning may face solitary confinement for having Jenner Vanity Fair Magazine -- Jeb's Foreign Policy: More Bush Wars! by Ron Paul -- American Hydra -- Greek Rape and Pillage Bailout Deal: Germany Wants More -- From the Archives of TomDispatch: America's Empire of Bases -- Why You Need to Cover Your Webcam RIGHT NOW! -- GCHQ and Me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers -- ISIS Using Chemical Weapons Against Kurds -- Police Collude with Drug Dealers to Help Eliminate the Competition -- Megyn Kelly, Queen of Narcissism, Gets a Pass -- Chris Christie vs. Rand Paul -- Domestic Terrorism: Cop Caught Aiming Gun at a Crowd of Hundreds of Innocent People (VIDEO) -- NASA awards contracts for SLS ground systems -- Lawrence Lessig Wants to Be a 'Referendum President' to Fix the Rigged System, Then Resign -- Why Partitioning Iraq Is a Terrible Idea (Video) -- Textbooks Are Going Digital, But Will That Put College Bookstores Out Of Business? -- New Study: Drinking Coffee Could Cut Diabetes Risk In Half -- Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary For Having Expired Toothpaste; Caitlyn Jenner's VF Issue -- Hillary Clinton's Anti-BDS Agenda -- It's 460 AD in Rome: This Won't Be Fixed -- This brokerage set up a secret team that traded against its own clients --
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: Impending U.S. Dollar Collapse should Get Attention, not China's Devaluation
08-13-2015
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LewRockwell.Com
The contrarian investor stated that China's economy isn't experiencing a freefall and the current devaluation is minuscule. He noted that the yuan's value has substantially increased over the past several years compared to the U.S. dollar.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Study Shows Deaths from Dangerous Painkillers Plummet in States with Legal Weed
08-13-2015
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Free Thought Project
So far in the US, 23 states and Washington, D.C. have legalized cannabis for medical use. Direct benefits are continuously being discovered and confirmed, such as cannabis oil successfully treating epilepsy.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA eyes Bigelow Aerospace's B330 for possible deep space use
08-13-2015
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Spaceflight Insider
Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas, Nevada has entered into a joint agreement with NASA to leverage the company's B330 inflatable space habitat for use with NASA's human space flight program.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Militia
Armed militias celebrate victory in Montana mine stand-off with federal govt
08-13-2015
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Russia Today
The Oath Keepers and other militia groups are celebrating a victory after a conflict over surface rights for a mine in Montana was taken to court. The militias were brought in to protect mine owners from federal interference.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Understanding Why the Clinton Emails Matter
08-13-2015
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Ron Paul Institute
In the world of handling America's secrets, words - classified, secure, retroactive - have special meanings. I held a Top Secret clearance at the State Department for 24 years and was regularly trained in protecting information as part of that
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Armed Oath Keepers Spark Unrest During Ferguson Protest
08-13-2015
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Truthdig
The Oath Keepers, an anti-government, conservative organization composed of former military personnel, police and first responders, showed up unannounced at the protest marking the one-year anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • General Opinion
Ron Paul Under Attack
08-13-2015
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LewRockwell.Com
For decades, Ron Paul has strived to expose the flawed Keynesian thought that dominates economic thinking in the United States - and most of the rest of the world.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Chelsea Manning may face solitary confinement for having Jenner Vanity Fair Magazine
08-12-2015
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Ed Pilkington, The Guardian
Expired tube of toothpaste and Malala Yousafzai memoir also among cell items that led to US soldier being allegedly charged with four violations of custody rules, lawyers say.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Jeb's Foreign Policy: More Bush Wars! by Ron Paul
08-13-2015
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
Jeb Bush gave his big foreign policy speech yesterday and -- surprise -- he's calling for more wars everywhere! Little wonder, his advisors are the old, discredited neocon crew.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
American Hydra
08-13-2015
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The Daily Bell
Sometimes it seems as if the single most defining characteristic of the human race is our ability to dehumanize. What other animal slaughters and subjugates its own species in the way we do?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
From the Archives of TomDispatch: America's Empire of Bases
08-13-2015
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Truthdig
There's a secret world out beyond the horizon, a world of austere airstrips and shadowy commandos, a world of screens filled by streaming full-motion video of armed young men in the backlands of the planet, a world of musty storage depots and wareh
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Why You Need to Cover Your Webcam RIGHT NOW!
08-13-2015
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True Activist
Chelsea Clark's night watching Netflix with her boyfriend didn't seem like anything out of the ordinary -- until pictures of the couple from that evening were sent to her Facebook account by the hacker who'd taken them from her webcam.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
GCHQ and Me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers
08-13-2015
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The Intercept
In my 40 years of reporting on mass surveillance, I have been raided 3 times; jailed once; had television programs I made banned from airing 5 times; seen tapes seized; faced being shoved out of a helicopter; had my phone tapped for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Police Collude with Drug Dealers to Help Eliminate the Competition
08-13-2015
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New York Times
When the sheriff in Franklin County, Ky., posted a flier on Facebook asking local drug dealers to snitch on their competition, the response was more than a little incredulous.
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News Link • NeoCons
Megyn Kelly, Queen of Narcissism, Gets a Pass
08-13-2015
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LewRockwell.Com
Megyn Kelly is razor sharp, impeccably prepared, relentless, tough, verbally skilled, and, to boot, a pretty good looker. She's also an egomaniacal smart-aleck who seems intent on following Glenn Beck down the path to mediocre celebrity status.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Chris Christie vs. Rand Paul
08-13-2015
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LewRockwell.Com
The dust-up between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul over presidential fidelity to the Constitution -- particularly the Fourth Amendment -- was the most illuminating two minutes of the Republican debate last week.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Domestic Terrorism: Cop Caught Aiming Gun at a Crowd of Hundreds of Innocent People (VIDEO)
08-13-2015
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Free Thought Project
The incident began Sunday night as a crowd gathered to watch dirt bikers perform. Police showed up to disperse the crowd, when one of them took to threatening the lives of hundreds.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA awards contracts for SLS ground systems
08-13-2015
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Spaceflight Insider
NASA has selected a prime contractor to modify its launch facilities and the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) that will be used for its new Space Launch System or "SLS."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics
Lawrence Lessig Wants to Be a 'Referendum President' to Fix the Rigged System, Then Resign
08-13-2015
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Truthdig
The Harvard professor and activist vowed Tuesday to run for president if he can raise $1 million in crowdfunding in order to make citizen equality the most important issue in the upcoming presidential election.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Why Partitioning Iraq Is a Terrible Idea (Video)
08-13-2015
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Truthdig
Every time there is a big civil conflict in a country, pundits always rush to speculate about or even urge partition. I remember when I was living in Lebanon in the 1970s during the early years of its civil war, there were speculations that it would
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Books
Textbooks Are Going Digital, But Will That Put College Bookstores Out Of Business?
08-13-2015
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Forbes
In the more than $10 billion dollar college textbook industry, students are captive consumers. Each semester during syllabus week, they face the infuriating task of spending hundreds of dollars on material they will never look at again after just a f
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary For Having Expired Toothpaste; Caitlyn Jenner's VF Issue
08-13-2015
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True Activist
Chase Strangio, a staff attorney with the ACLU suggested to the Guardian that these actions may be intended to silence Manning and her continued activism.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
This brokerage set up a secret team that traded against its own clients
08-12-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, MATT TURNER
ITG, an electronic brokerage that trades more than 4 billion US shares a month, has admitted to running a secret trading desk that took advantage of its clients.
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News Link • China
Rise of the brain-controlled robot ARMIES
08-12-2015
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Richard Gray
Researchers have developed technology that allows students to control robots through a cap that detects the faint electrical activity of their brains
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Woman Uses Fitbit During Sex: Here Are The Results
08-12-2015
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chicago.cbslocal.com
It just might become one of the most viral fever graphs in the history of the Internet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
First Trailer for Quentin Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight' Debuts
08-12-2015
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hollywoodreporter.com, by Graeme McMillan
The director is out for justice in his new Western fantasy.
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Robert Lee
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