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Date Sent: 2015-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Tuesday, August 18, 2015 |
Agenda for a Freer and More Prosperous America
The Seamless Web of Liberty by Ron Paul -- Uber Serves Up Its Food Delivery Service, UberEats, To San Francisco -- Christianity, Libertarianism, and the Drug War -- Pentagon Announces That Drone Strikes Worldwide Will Increase By 50% In Coming Years -- The Donald Trump show: 24 hours with the Republican frontrunner -- The Russian Media Is Talking About What Is Coming In September -- Facebook Is Trying to Make Blogging Happen Again -- The Farm Runoff Feedback Loop Is Turning Aquifers Radioactive -- "Independent" GMO Researcher Forced to Release Emails Showing $25K Grant from Monsanto -- From satire to SummerSlam: Jon Stewart to host WWE wrestling extravaganza -- Amazon exposé shows how little tech has changed the landscape -- Indian Bitcoin Startup Zebpay to Open a Mobile E-Commerce Marketplace -- The Wall Street Ponzi At Work----The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies -- Moving Into a Shipping Container, but Staying Put -- Murder, Inc: Official Israeli Policy -- The Fastest-Growing States For Tech Jobs In 2015 -- Home Depot Bumps Up Outlook As Sales Benefit From Housing Recovery -- Oil Goes Down, Bankruptcies Go Up - These 5 Frackers Could Be Next To Fall -- Feds in Panic. States Kill Planned Parenthood Funding, Not Children. -- Oregon Enacts "Right to Try" Law Letting Dying Patients Try Experimental Treatments -- Economic Crisis: Soros-Linked Billionaire Buys Up Gold -- The Conspiracy "Theory" Conspiracy -- Venezuela's Currency Is Now So Worthless That People Are Using It As Napkins -- Report: EPA's Global Warming Rule Could KILL Thousands Of People -- Ma Bell Lies, Betrays Customers -- Ireland Built Its First Shipping Home Container In 3 Days To House The Homeless -- Twisting The Truth On The Iraq War -- Donald Trump on the Issues -- Republicans Can't Face the Truth About Iraq --
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Agenda for a Freer and More Prosperous America
08-18-2015
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The Daily Bell
There is little that happens in society in general and the market economy in particular that most on the political "left" do not think needs more government intervention, regulation and redistribution to make "better."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
The Seamless Web of Liberty by Ron Paul
08-18-2015
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The Daily Bell - Ron Paul
In a free society, individuals must respect the right of others to make their own choices free from government coercion. However they do not have to approve of those choices. Individuals are free to use peaceful persuasion to stop others from engagin
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Uber Serves Up Its Food Delivery Service, UberEats, To San Francisco
08-18-2015
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Forbes
The ride-hailing service will start delivering hot meals from local restaurants to users in San Francisco, the company said Tuesday. The product, called UberEats, lets users order through the app and choose from a few menu items during set hours each
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Christianity, Libertarianism, and the Drug War
08-18-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
This talk was given on August 8 at the Christians for Liberty conference in Austin, Texas.
Although I have been writing from the perspective of a conservative Christian libertarian for the past twenty years, it was not until 2009 that I first wrot
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drones
Pentagon Announces That Drone Strikes Worldwide Will Increase By 50% In Coming Years
08-18-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
The US military will be expanding their disastrous drone program by 50% in the next four years, bringing the number of daily drone flights from 61 to 90.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Donald Trump show: 24 hours with the Republican frontrunner
08-18-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump sits behind his desk on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan. It is 2pm, and he has just got off the phone with America's most famous football player, Tom Brady.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - International
The Russian Media Is Talking About What Is Coming In September
08-18-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Could it be possible that Russian reporters have more freedom to talk about important issues than reporters that work for the major corporate conglomerates in the United States do? Of course the Russian media is far from perfect.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook Is Trying to Make Blogging Happen Again
08-18-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
I'm an inveterate backstalker...In case you're one of the lucky few who aren't familiar with the term (and probably haven't fallen victim), it's pretty vile.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Agriculture
The Farm Runoff Feedback Loop Is Turning Aquifers Radioactive
08-18-2015
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http://motherboard.vice.com
Uranium levels nearly 100 times that of safe limits established by the Environmental Protection Agency have been repeatedly detected in two of the United States' largest groundwater sources: the High Plains and Central Valley aquifers.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Agriculture
"Independent" GMO Researcher Forced to Release Emails Showing $25K Grant from Monsanto
08-18-2015
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http://truthstreammedia.com
In January of 2015, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Oakland organization U.S. Right to Know requested email records between academics, scientists, and representatives of Big Agriculture.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
From satire to SummerSlam: Jon Stewart to host WWE wrestling extravaganza
08-18-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Former anchor puts piledrivers before politics in return to TV, just two weeks after emotional Daily Show farewell
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Amazon exposé shows how little tech has changed the landscape
08-18-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google's well-intentioned capitalism has begun to resemble the ruthless corporatism more commonly associated with Wall Street
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Bitcoin
Indian Bitcoin Startup Zebpay to Open a Mobile E-Commerce Marketplace
08-18-2015
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com
Zebpay's newly released mobile payment service enables its users to pay for DTH (direct broadcast satellite), mobile airtime and data card using bitcoin.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Wall Street Ponzi At Work----The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies
08-18-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/david-stockman
In the nearby column Jim Quinn debunks Wall Street's latest claim that the American consumer is bounding back.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Housing
Moving Into a Shipping Container, but Staying Put
08-18-2015
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http://www.nytimes.com
Mr. Crosby said the simplicity of the ordering process was ultimately what sold him on the home. "I don't have to make any decisions about the layout, the appliances I need or about the permitting," he said. "I just clicked a button to buy an
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Business Network Freedom Summit
The Fastest-Growing States For Tech Jobs In 2015
08-18-2015
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Forbes
If you think the top of the list should be California, New York and Washington, you guessed wrong. The top three states, according to a new list of fastest-growing states for tech jobs: Minnesota, Utah and Nebraska. New York and California rank, but
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Business Network Freedom Summit
Home Depot Bumps Up Outlook As Sales Benefit From Housing Recovery
08-18-2015
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Forbes
Amid a recovery in the housing market, plus an improving economy and still-low interest rates, people have been increasingly more willing to spend money to fix up and renovate their homes.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Oil Goes Down, Bankruptcies Go Up - These 5 Frackers Could Be Next To Fall
08-18-2015
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Forbes
With West Texas Intermediate crude now below $42 a barrel, the edifice of America's oil and gas boom is finally crumbling. The number of companies in bankruptcy or restructuring has increased, and the clouds will only grow darker in the months ahea
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government
Feds in Panic. States Kill Planned Parenthood Funding, Not Children.
08-18-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com
Killing children is federal policy. Killing Planned Parenthood is therefore a threat to the Feds.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Oregon Enacts "Right to Try" Law Letting Dying Patients Try Experimental Treatments
08-18-2015
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Truth in Media
Oregon is the twenty-fourth state in just over a year to enact "right to try" legislation allowing doctors to prescribe experimental drugs to terminally ill patients who have run out of other options for treatment.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Economic Crisis: Soros-Linked Billionaire Buys Up Gold
08-18-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
A billionaire hedge fund manager linked to George Soros bought up gold shares after multiple financial experts warned a stock market crash is coming.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Conspiracy "Theory" Conspiracy
08-18-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
A Documentary Film by Adam Green
Hundreds of news clips, declassified documents, and evidence demonstrating the establishment media's propaganda campaign against conspiracy theories and the truth.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Currencies
Venezuela's Currency Is Now So Worthless That People Are Using It As Napkins
08-18-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
There's an image going round that sums up just how ridiculous Venezuela's economy has become.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Climate Change
Report: EPA's Global Warming Rule Could KILL Thousands Of People
08-18-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
"The EPA's climate rule has no discernible impact on climate change and may cause thousands of premature deaths in the United States," according to a recent report by the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER).
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Surveillance
Ma Bell Lies, Betrays Customers
08-18-2015
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The Daily Bell
The National Security Agency's ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. -
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Architecture
Ireland Built Its First Shipping Home Container In 3 Days To House The Homeless
08-18-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
Cargotecture is an easy and affordable way to ease the homelessness crisis.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Iraq
Twisting The Truth On The Iraq War
08-18-2015
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
Dick Cheney's coming out with a new book arguing for an even more interventionist foreign policy. Jeb Bush blames "faulty intelligence" for the Iraq war fiasco. Is history being re-written?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Republicans Can't Face the Truth About Iraq
08-18-2015
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unz.com
Gov. Jeb Bush repeated one of the biggest falsehoods of our time during the recent presidential candidate debate: "we were misled (into the Iraq War) by faulty intelligence."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Bad Move: The Backfiring of Israeli Strategy on Iran
08-18-2015
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nationalinterest.org
Those paying attention both to the Israeli government's implacable opposition against the agreement restricting Iran's nuclear program and to the issue of Iran's other activity in the Middle East might take note of some background that several analys
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How to Help
Stop the Annihilation of the Salt River Wild Horses!!!
08-18-2015
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change.org
The iconic salt river wild horses are in danger of being killed. The US Forest Service (USFS) has posted a public notice of roundup and removal.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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